Alright, so I’ll get laughed at here, but one of my ‘goals’ for work this year is I wanted to take the 4 hour VBA course on youtube and then write a small program after it that does something.

Before you laugh at me using an outdated language, I only chose it because a co worker suggested learning it, and we do use some VBA coded macros in our spreadsheets. We’re not a very up to date company.

The reason I never get anything done with learning programming is I never know what to do . And if I do come up with something to do, it will be WAYY too complex over my head, i’ll fail at it, then never touch it again. If it’s too simple, I won’t even want to bother. (Yay ADHD)

So I’m just looking for a couple suggestions for a fun little program to make (and consider the goal ‘done’). I know calculators of some sort are an option…I can’t really think of anything else. I guess it doesn’t actually have to be a useful program but it would be cool if it was.

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Functions are somewhat useful in VBA although learning LAMBDA in cell formulas (and named ranges) would probably serve you better at this time.

    So instead I would say focus on writing a Sub. The one I used for myself students was to turn the current selection into a checkerboard by resizing column width to 2 and coloring every other square black (or any color).