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Those and Excel to a lesser extent. There are people who otherwise know nothing about coding who know enough about formulas and functions in Excel that they ca
by ravenstine 5y ago
Those and Excel to a lesser extent. There are people who otherwise know nothing about coding who know enough about formulas and functions in Excel that they can make some pretty sophisticated calculators because the software gives them just enough of what they need without overloading them with the completedness of a full fledged programming language.
VB6 contributed heavily to my early coding education because, in the early days, I was more interested in merely being able to make a Windows program with buttons, checkboxes, and all the fancy widgets that were available. Visual Basic hands that to you on a silver platter and did so quite well.
- rchaud 5y agoFlash let visually oriented people dabble in programming. Excel let numerically oriented people create mini dashboards and interactive calculators. I recently discovered Glide Apps [0], which takes an spreadsheet-first approach to no-code app development, and it's totally changed how I understand programming concepts. I know HTML/CSS and just enough PHP for WP sites, and not much else. But seeing how data in Google Sheets visually populated specific field containers in my app UI got me looking into the Fetch API for JS, which allows me to do the same thing using JSON. [0] glideapps.com/