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Hmm. Does that mean anyone who makes a spreadsheet is a developer? What about photoshop users?
by rco8786 11y ago
Hmm. Does that mean anyone who makes a spreadsheet is a developer? What about photoshop users?
- matwood 11y agoSpreadsheets, and Excel in particular is a type of gateway drug for people to become developers. First they put in a few numbers and see things happen and before long they are writing small scripts in Excel to automate. At some point they could at least be called an Excel developer.
- n0us 11y agodepends, you can do some powerful things in spreadsheets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnliT7iHtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnliT7iHtI You can also script photoshop, so if you are actually "developing" for photoshop then I would say yes although that would be certainly an unconventional way to join the trade.
- Moto7451 11y agoThe members of the finance department at my work are definitely programmers. Their spreadsheets define exceptionally complex functionality and they even work a bit in VBA. When Excel is no longer powerful enough they write a little bit of SQL and run it through a Data Connector. Dismissing what they do as "not programming" is incorrect. We call programmers who only know how to glue vendor APIs together "developers", so we should extend the same professional courtesy to people doing a similar level of programming.