It was probably some of the first code I ever wrote, before I ever really learned how to code properly. I was deployed with the military, and there was a task t

It was probably some of the first code I ever wrote, before I ever really learned how to code properly. I was deployed with the military, and there was a task that needed to be done for some of our configurations that was incredibly manually intensive. Basically: get a task document from command and translate it to a format that could be understood by our particular weapon system. We would receive updates once a week, and it would take 2-3 12 hour shifts in a row to do this. Lots of “copy this, cross reference that”. I spent a few weeks reading Mr. Excel forums and tried automating it, which brought the total time down to just 10 minutes. Of course, after I left, they went back to the old way because the new crew “didn’t trust the computer”.