Programming Excel

Question

I\'d like to give my boyfriend a taste of programming. If it was up to me, I\'d teach Scheme, Haskell or F# but since he\'d rather learn something that can be useful in his

Answer 1

You can do a great deal with VBA, probably more than someone in finance would ever wish to do. VBA is intended, I believe, for just such people, but it generally gets bad press. I think that if you, a programmer, taught your boyfriend VBA, he would develop some understanding of programming and also have to hand an extremely useful tool for work, far in advance of anything that can be achieved by recording macros. In addition, it is a very short step from VBA to VBScript.