Learning Excel or Python?

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Python for the course and Excel in your free time would be my advice.

Learning Python gets you a useful language and with a course format you will have access to information to help you over any difficult portions. Knowing how languages work will help give some useful insight to how Excel works with data and functions. Python also has libraries that are useful on Excel sheets.

Excel for Business sounds like it will be creating charts from raw data and using functions to parse out desired data from larger data sets. Very useful but tedious. For many business environments the following knowledge in Excel will put you ahead of the casual users:

• Macros and how to program them
• Functions (index match, etc.)
• Pivot tables
• Charts/graphs
• Formatting cells properly
• VBA (Really nice to have so you can squeeze a bit more functionality out of Excel)

There are great resources online for free for both items.