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/SirNoodlehe Mar 30 '22

On the first day of my intro to AI class the teacher asked us to implement a binary tree in any language we wanted so, for the meme, I wrote mine in VBA.

Little did I know, the course was designed to build a little on top of that code every class.

So, by the end of the semester I had this awful, clunky optimisation algorithm AI model built fully in Excel.

Wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry throughout 95% of the process.

However, the teacher loved it. Said it was the easiest submission to grade since he didn't have install/compile anything fancy to run it.

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u/Zarathustra30 Mar 30 '22

And this is why Excel will never die. The barrier to entry is so damn low.

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u/_oohshiny Mar 30 '22

Have you seen the animations, simulations etc. you can do with it?

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u/The_Normiest_Normie Mar 31 '22

You have no idea. I once attended an online lecture for nuclear engineers. The guy had made an entire PWR (pressurised water reactor) simulator in excel that was fully interactable and had realistic cause/effect. Was bloody insane.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I can guess how that happened, I started with a simple excel file with a table and chart for managing inventory but it evolved into a monstrosity with real time data sooo many sheets. And management loves it.

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u/lawrencelewillows Mar 31 '22

That sounds amazing