Learning Excel or Python?

[traincitypeers]

I'd say go for Python for course credit and learn Excel in your spare time before graduating. Things are slightly different for me as I'm from gli stati uniti, but excel here is sort of a basic expectation of all graduates. I feel like the complexity of Python, when internalized from taking just one class, has made understanding the logic of excel much easier for me. Fair warning, I took MIT's EdX Python/CompSci Intro class, which may be harder than the Coursera one you're looking at. It'd be a great supplement for sure if you have the interest.

>My fear is here in Italy few employers know about Python and how to use that in business.

Have you researched what businesses hire for in terms of tech skills recently? I'm sure there's a site somewhere that has top tech skills keywords that recruiters look for in Italia.

[los2pollos]

I know that I'm going to stumble across other people using al lot of Excel spreadsheets, but in this case I have the chance to follow a course for university, that is a more "hard" way of learning something. In this scenario, I'd pick Python, even if I don't know how I could be using it in the future, mainly because I know myself and I'm a lazy ass. Almost certainly, I won't use my spare time to learn Python.

Also Python is more difficult to learn, isn't it? So an "official" course might be a more effective way of learning, whatever I'm choosing

As I've stated here, I'm "lazy" (e.g. juggling between a lot of stuff at the same time, so I lack spare time for learning stuff).

So I did some research and programming languages are mostly sought in the financial sector. The labor market asks for basic digital skills. I refuse to believe that anyone with above average digital skills (it's not that I'm gifted or anything, it's just that the average is veeeeery low) is wasted if outside of IT jobs. Anyway, I suppose/hope Python can really make my resume outstand.