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comment by elliuss
elliuss  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Even though I'm finally getting into "true" programming, I can't emphasize enough how big the leap from "none" to "some" is. I began working at a bank with no computing experience and holy hell was it terrible. The amount of inefficiency was so severe that I decided I had to learn some VBA just to automate the worst wastes of time. After less than 2 months, I was writing small VBA programs that were halving the amount of time people spent on cleaning up data. It's incredible what even a tiny amount of automation can accomplish.