I do book keeping for a small company and I want to learn python specifically for libraries like pandasI haven't done any sort of programming since highschool but I got the basics after a brief refesher from w3schools. realistically on a saturday can I learn enough to parse through an excel file, organize different cells under common fields and then format that in a pretty way?
>>107865739Yes. Easily. Start with the official pandas tutorial.
>>107865739I think this is a bit too much to do in a single day if you aren't familiar with the core parts of Python already. In two days you could probably do it, if you put in a good amount of time on each day and have a fairly simple set of Excel files to work with.
>>107865739Yes. Use AI as a tool. Your first programs will be shit and have too many bugs you wont find them all. But then you learn how to fix them not because you're a gay nerd but because book keeping has consequences.So it'll get easier to use, quicker to learn, even if AI fixes it, you'll learn how to describe the problem, and before you know it you have something that works and can always be improved.
Entirely depends on what you're doing and the scale of your data. If you're just adding a few columns or grouping rows for a small file you can just copy paste from stackoverflow or use llms. Doing nontrivial things on large datasets (10s of thousands of rows at least) in a reasonable time is difficult and requires you to actually know what you're doing
>>107865739Yes.But VBA suits the task better
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