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by goatlover 3583 days ago
Excel is a tool, not a programming language. Nobody teaches Excel (or nobody should) in an introductory programming course. It might be Java, or Python, or C++ or what have you, but you're starting someone off programing with an actual programming language. As a tool, Excel is useful, but limited to what the tool was made for. With a programming language, you can make any sort of tool you need.