Dec-21-2017, 08:58 AM
Hi, Alan Elston here, an Englander, living in the remote Bavarian Hills since longer than I care to remember.
This is my first post at Python Forum, so I will probably mess something up. Sorry in advance for that.
I expect, ( excluding the Spammers ), I probably have less knowledge about Python than anybody who has ever registered here.
I started very late with computers a couple of years ago, purely to help speed up a personal project whereby I was still using pen, paper and a pocket calculator to do loads of very similar calculations every day.
After a bit of looking around ( having no idea about computing or even computers at all for that matter ) , I ended up with some massive messy Excel spreadsheets. A year later I learnt a bit about VBA and was then very annoyed that I had not learnt some VBA at the outset of starting with Excel.
In the meantime I got a bit addicted to VBA and have been active on some Excel Forums and Blog sites , ( as Doc.AElstein or DocAElstein ).
After a long Summer break I am coming back “on line” , and as I am brushing up again on my VBA , I thought I would also try to broaden my Horizons a bit with looking At Python. I don’t have the slightest clue about Python. I only know that it is a computer language, and a few experts have advised me over the last year or so, that I should take a look and consider it as an alternative to VBA for some of my stuff.
So I am off now to look at this, https://python-forum.io/Thread-A-List-of...-Resources
One thing I found very useful when I was learning VBA was to download a lot of YouTube learn videos and build up a long play list , which I then let run in the background continuously or let run at night to fall asleep to as an alternative to television..
I expect I will do that again for Python. I expect , as with VBA, there is loads of videos. If anyone can recommend any that they have found useful, or know to be worth a view, then I would be grateful for any info.
Thanks, Danke
Alan
This is my first post at Python Forum, so I will probably mess something up. Sorry in advance for that.
I expect, ( excluding the Spammers ), I probably have less knowledge about Python than anybody who has ever registered here.
I started very late with computers a couple of years ago, purely to help speed up a personal project whereby I was still using pen, paper and a pocket calculator to do loads of very similar calculations every day.
After a bit of looking around ( having no idea about computing or even computers at all for that matter ) , I ended up with some massive messy Excel spreadsheets. A year later I learnt a bit about VBA and was then very annoyed that I had not learnt some VBA at the outset of starting with Excel.
In the meantime I got a bit addicted to VBA and have been active on some Excel Forums and Blog sites , ( as Doc.AElstein or DocAElstein ).
After a long Summer break I am coming back “on line” , and as I am brushing up again on my VBA , I thought I would also try to broaden my Horizons a bit with looking At Python. I don’t have the slightest clue about Python. I only know that it is a computer language, and a few experts have advised me over the last year or so, that I should take a look and consider it as an alternative to VBA for some of my stuff.
So I am off now to look at this, https://python-forum.io/Thread-A-List-of...-Resources
One thing I found very useful when I was learning VBA was to download a lot of YouTube learn videos and build up a long play list , which I then let run in the background continuously or let run at night to fall asleep to as an alternative to television..
I expect I will do that again for Python. I expect , as with VBA, there is loads of videos. If anyone can recommend any that they have found useful, or know to be worth a view, then I would be grateful for any info.
Thanks, Danke
Alan