johnwengler

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   by johnwengler 2mo ago

   You are quite possibly right but I can think of several reasons why total non-programmer might want to learn some basic coding. First, you learn the exact discipline and kind of thinking that improves what you ask AI to do. Second, if you
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   by johnwengler 2mo ago

   Yes, actual programmers don't need this book. But their non-programming roommates or relatives might! The word "tedious" totally jumped out at me! The vast majority of corporate desk jockeys (like myself) use Excel as part
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   by johnwengler 2mo ago

   Titles are incredibly hard to get right... but the spirit is about automating what you do with Excel. To the absolute beginner, writing a Python script to ingest a spreadsheet into a dataframe, doing all the manual copy/paste blah bla
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   by johnwengler 2mo ago

   Yeah... I wondered about the title "Automate Excel with Pandas" but Excel users would have no idea what I was talking about. Those who never leave the safe harbor of Microsoft will have heard distant rumblings about Python but no
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   by johnwengler 2mo ago

   Yup... I wrote this book for folks who love Excel but no programming experience.