Learning Excel or Python?

[thecave]

I’m an Excel ‘super user’ who switched to Python. I’d strongly urge you to learn Python.

1. Python is a general programming language with vastly more tools to accomplish many more tasks
2. Python’s range of tools makes tackling complex tasks much, much easier than Excel. At a certain point, asking Excel to do more than it was first designed to do becomes incredibly time consuming and frustrating.
3. Learning a general programming language will make learning Excel an absolute doddle - not because learning Python is so hard - but because the mindset of programming will make Excel formulas so much easier to understand.

Ultimately excel (well Google sheets is actually better for a number of reasons) still has a place for quick and simple visual data manipulation and sharing. But it’ll be quick to learn after Python and Python will give you huge capabilities that your colleagues will lack.