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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by PascLeRasc on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:22PM (#18151408)
At my previous job in the power industry we had to clean up our shared drive and move all the CAD files of one type into a certain new folder, and the CAD files of the newer type into another, and PDF outputs in another, GIS exports in another, etc. Three people were dragging-and-dropping by hand for hours until I had some free time and made a Python script in 10 minutes to do this all. Got a few free drinks that day.
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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by 3rdAccount on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:23PM (#18152217)
It's amazing what scripting allows one to do. If I was in charge of hiring any technical roles, any non-developer job would still require basic coding proficiency, or at least a candidate who agreed to seriously give it a shot and try to learn.
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