![]() ![]() ![]() #.NET FOR SPACECHEM MANUAL#BASIC was for end users, and machine code/compiled languages were for “real programmers” - BASIC was documented in the manual that came with your home computer, machine code was documented in MOS data sheets. People who had already used a home computer during the 8-bit/16-bit era (or even an IBM-compatible PC) were familiar with BASIC because that was how end-users were originally supposed to interact with their computers. Visual Basic and VBS seemed like a natural choice to give power to end users in the 90s. I suspect that half of the “basic computer usage” curriculum was the result of a lobbying campaign by Microsoft’s German branch, because we had to learn about certain features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows 95, and non-Microsoft applications were conspicuously absent. #.NET FOR SPACECHEM HOW TO#Myself, I have actually had to learn how to use Excel in school, in seventh grade. I met non-programmers who used SPSS, Mathematica, or Matlab properly a handful of times, but even these people are getting rarer and rarer in the age of Julia, NumPy, SymPy, Octave, and R. UX experts praise Excel for giving power to non-programmers, but I never met a non-programmer who used Excel “properly”, never mind developed an application in it. I have never seen anybody who was not a programmer or trained in Excel fill in a spreadsheet and send it back correctly.Ĭomputer programmers complain about the inaccessibility of Excel, the lack of discoverability, the mixing of code and data in documents that makes versioning applications a proper nightmare, the influence of the cell structure on code structure, and the destructive automatic casting of cell data into datatypes. ![]() I have never seen anybody who wasn’t already versed in a real programming language write a complex application in an Excel spreadsheet. Excel is a great tool for normal people and power users, I often hear. If you’re a computer programmer, you frequently hear UX experts praise the way Excel allows non-programmers to write whole applications without help from the IT department. If you’re a computer programmer, you sometimes hear other programmers complain about Excel, because it mixes data and code, or about Word, because it mixes text and formatting, and nobody ever uses Word and Excel properly. Previously on computer literacy: A Test For Computer Literacy ![]()
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