Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by alexhutcheson on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:07PM (#21327399)

Is anyone aware of a good resource to learn VBA? All the resources I've seen online are either tutorials for very quick hacks, or assume you have 0 programming knowledge. I would love a "VBA for people who are familiar with at least one other programming language".

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by BubRoss on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:05PM (#21327990)

You don't have to learn VBA to do this, you can just include windows.h in C and call the SendKeys function.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by dividedbyzero on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:57PM (#21328855)

There's also java.awt.Robot – I've used it a lot for similar things, really neat if you already have Java/Scala code for getting the data to fill in.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by alexhutcheson on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:17PM (#21328580)

I'm interested in scripting stuff in Excel.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by conductr on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:47PM (#21329665)

I’d recommend learning at least one other programming language, then use the tutorials.

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