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>We should teach programming because... We you know? It really isn't quite as urgent. 90% of office workers would benefit from the ability to write an Excel Ma
by sprout 16y ago
>We should teach programming because... We you know? It really isn't quite as urgent.
90% of office workers would benefit from the ability to write an Excel Macro. I don't even think that's a hard sell. Any businessman who understands what Excel does would understand that.
Of course, long term Excel is a toy, and there are all sorts of benefits to be had from more general tools like Python.
- wazoox 16y ago> Of course, long term Excel is a toy [...] I too, would like this to be true. However, the unfortunate truth is that the main market for windows-based HPC is... monstrous, clusterized excel computations.
- sprout 16y agoI'm just sort of pining for a far flung day after programming becomes established as an ordinary middle-school and high-school class, and those students grow up and become MBAs and CEOs. For now we have Excel. :)