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Just my take, but the more people who can “code”, even at a basic level, the better. Because then they intuit that the challenging part in not the words but the
by edmundsauto 4y ago
Just my take, but the more people who can “code”, even at a basic level, the better. Because then they intuit that the challenging part in not the words but the logic.
Learn to code then be an “excel jockey”. Those folks create just as much value with less of the identity bullshit.
Edit - sorry if this sounded confrontational. That wasn’t my intent - I just learned that I feel passionately about this topic.
- speed_spread 4y agoExcel certainly has it's place and is great as an interchange format and prototyping platform for domain specialists. I agree that it's unjustly derided by snobbish programmers. Converting to and from CSV is cheaply implemented and can do wonder as human interface to a system since "non programmers" know how to deal with that. The problems start when it is pushed beyond its limits, sheets can become undocumented mess of cell spaghetti which users still expect to scale up and grow new features indefinitely. It's hard to determine for Excel coders when they are past that cost/benefit tipover point and move up to a more robust set of programming tools.