Sunday, September 6, 2009

Seven habits of highly effective managerial programmers

Some words of wisdom culled from our thoroughly enjoyable MC classes. Thank you Prof. Rao!

1. Be anti-Kabir in your approach towards excel programming. (For the unitiated, anti-Kabir is a philosophical position which goes against the much revered time management teachings of Kabir (Kal karai so aaj kar..blah blah). Anti-Kabir, as you might have guessed, is "Don't do today what you can do tomorrow and don't do tomorrow what you can do the day after".)

2. When in doubt, right-click.

3. Subject the screen to a "Stare Test". Most often the thing that you are looking for is somewhere there.

4. Things as simple as conditional formatting can give your non-MC friends (read: non-wimwi) an inferiority complex.

5. Take coffee breaks. Often. Like right now.

6. Be careful about the code you develop, as Microsoft might be lurking around to steal your ideas. They stole our =AVERAGEIF()

7. Money works, in life and in excel. When you want your cell references to behave, give them the $$ they want.

Our favourite Raoism is , "=INDEX(range, 1,0) is like Hanuman bringing the entire mountain when he did not know where Sanjivani was." All managerial programmers worth their code can laugh now.

Top-up, ChuKaPu

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