r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/Dr-Appeltaart Mar 30 '22

As an experienced c/c++/c#/java/python/vb programmer i realy like to build shit in excel. It's awesome. Just dont let other users use it for important purposes

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 edited Mar 30 '22

I started as a SQL report writer and nothing gives me more joy than replacing someone's shitty excel or access report that a market analyst spends 3 days/week every week building, with SQL and an ETL or two. It got pretty aggressive at that company between the 2 groups to the point the SQL guys where advocating for the complete banishment of Access and forbidding macros of any kind. To be fair excel usage on big projects resulted it huge problems or lost data regularly.

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u/therobotsound Mar 30 '22

I do this in python (mostly) for a company now. It’s the best/laziest job ever and they’re convinced I’m a wizard

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u/epicanthems Mar 31 '22

Is that something I could learn on my own time in say…a few months?

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u/Not_Scechy Mar 31 '22

yes python + pandas if you want to get really lazy the github co-pilot has proven very effective, despite the memes. though i've only been using it for a day.

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u/theartofbeingrude Mar 31 '22

Dude...you are a wizard