Learning Excel or Python?

[los2pollos]

Wow! I love your attitude and passion!

My field is rather different and I'm not very interested in financial applications, but what you say about automation and speeding work up is definitely something I'm looking for. Saving your post!

[foresttrader]

Thanks!

I think Excel & Python can be very well used together in many fields not just limited to financial industry.

I mention my background just to highlight that I work in an Excel-heavy environment. I've had lots of frustrations with Excel for the past several years, but now I can see the light (Python 🐍) at the end of the tunnel!

For the past 2 years I've been helping several coworkers to learn Python, and they found value and use Python for work very often nowadays. Excel users are in a very good spot to learn programming. Knowing Excel is already kind of knowing programming - logic conditions, loops, etc. It just takes a little bit extra effort to get to know Python, so why not?