When I started writing VBA macros for excel spreadsheets at work. The gratifying thing was that dozens of people were immediately using the things I built and p

When I started writing VBA macros for excel spreadsheets at work. The gratifying thing was that dozens of people were immediately using the things I built and productivity was measurably increasing - while not having to worry about rigorous testing or anything like that. Someone on an excel help forum had told me I'd need to use VBA to do what I was originally asking, and when I did I seemed to... Excel myself. I'd been primed by some brief previous experience programming in one year of highschool and when I was a kid with a ZX Spectrum. Not sure why I didn't get 'the bug' earlier. Probably lack of extrinsic motivation.