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If you enjoy problem solving and you're good at Excel often spreadsheets can be fun. It's not necessarily playing a game but about the satisfaction of logically
by LegitShady 2y ago
If you enjoy problem solving and you're good at Excel often spreadsheets can be fun. It's not necessarily playing a game but about the satisfaction of logically laying out data, transformations and calculations in a way that solves a problem.
That's not fun for everyone but it is fun for some people. The same way coding challenges and learn 2 code gamified websites are fun for some people.
[Insert Dilbert "the knack" show segment]
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThis. Spreadsheets can be fun as means to solving an interesting problem; they have several things going on for them: - Focused, incremental, working-memory friendly; - Very fast feedback loop; it's a dopamine pumping 2D REPL; - Free of all the devops bullshit, which infected all the "proper" programming tools to the degree it's getting hard to do a local "Hello World" without having to swim through it; - Because of the derision it gets from "normie tech folks", doing something large in it gives you just the right amount of "hold my beer and watch this" bragging rights (in some ways, this is similar to demoscene on legacy platforms like Amiga).