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First post.
So, I've been teaching myself front-end for about 7 months now, and I'm really enjoying it, especially the actual programming aspect of JS. I also just started a new job, nothing to do with development, that I expected to be extremely boring and unfulfilling, as it doesn't fulfill any of my interests, but it'll pay my rent and it has decent benefits. I'll be mostly working with excel.
Now, like I mentioned, I'm really new to the dev world, just a little infant really. I know enough to know that I don't know shit. So, I was surprised to learn today that you can program in excel with VBA. I know the language gets a good bit of hate on here, I did a search before posting, and while I haven't started to learn it just yet (I'm starting tonight) I'm excited about. Firstly, because I'll get to do coding for my job, something I'm interested in, and secondly, because if I can figure out how to automate part of what I do well enough that it's implemented with the rest of the team, then maybe I'll be rewarded, and I'd be able to put professional coding experience on a resume for when I try to find a better job.
I've really enjoyed reading all the rants. They've been entertaining and also educational sometimes.
tl;dr Discovered VBA and was actually excited about it

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    VBA or not, you're right - you're learning more coding. You have the right attitude and mindset about this, and that will take you farther than you think. Good luck and welcome to devrant.
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    Welcome to devRant
    And it is called a rant not a postπŸ‘
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    @AboMahdi ah, my bad.
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    VBA is a shit language but I worked with it a lot (call me weird but I did it for fun). Have fun working with it
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    Also you can automate your manual routines and have more time during your job to learn more real programming :)
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