Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code
by rco8786 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:18PM
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Hmm. Does that mean anyone who makes a spreadsheet is a developer? What about photoshop users?
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Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code
by Moto7451 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:25PM
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The members of the finance department at my work are definitely programmers. Their spreadsheets define exceptionally complex functionality and they even work a bit in VBA. When Excel is no longer powerful enough they write a little bit of SQL and run it through a Data Connector. Dismissing what they do as "not programming" is incorrect. We call programmers who only know how to glue vendor APIs together "developers", so we should extend the same professional courtesy to people doing a similar level of programming.
Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code
by matwood on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:22PM
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Spreadsheets, and Excel in particular is a type of gateway drug for people to become developers. First they put in a few numbers and see things happen and before long they are writing small scripts in Excel to automate. At some point they could at least be called an Excel developer.
Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code
by n0us on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:25PM
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depends, you can do some powerful things in spreadsheets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnliT7iHtI
You can also script photoshop, so if you are actually "developing" for photoshop then I would say yes although that would be certainly an unconventional way to join the trade.