[CinchWrench]

This is so cool. VBA is a gateway drug, for sure. It was my first foray into programming, specifically to solve a problem I knew I could formulate as a shortest path problem. That's led me on quite a journey.

The only thing I wish they'd do is update the editor. I like that it feels responsive, I just don't like the lack of line numbers and themes.

[remarkEon]

I had to write VBA one summer for an internship, as I was handed this massive spreadsheet that a small to mid-sized business used to run their entire supply chain operation. It was a complete and total mess, with circular references everywhere and random excel formulas that, as far as I could tell, just made everything slower. They were too small at the time to invest in any kind of off-the-shelf solution (though they don't appear to be anymore). Took me about 2 weeks to figure out what the file did, and another 5 or so to learn enough VBA and leverage it to recreate a much lighter and cleaner version. Basically hung out for the last 3 weeks of the internship.

It was cool to use, and after a little bit of a learning curve started making a lot of sense to me. Beyond that though ... I don't see myself ever using it again. Thankful for the opportunity (they took a chance and hired me with zero legitimate experience in that sort of thing), and, yeah, it did make me pick up some other stuff after I was done.

[markus_zhang]

Try the rubber duck extension:

http://rubberduckvba.com/

[animalnewbie]

I actually cut paste to and from gvim