I've FINALLY mastered programming my alarm clock........
The rest of my electronic devices are right on time twice a day. At noon and at midnight. :p
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Good on you Parky boy for learning a little programming; I think it's important for developing business solutions in MS Office for everyday use. In my experience, working for the South Australian Public Sector, there;s very few people who have any idea about this (not that I really have any idea either, but I dabble, de construct and learn). In my experience, just a bit of Visual Basic and advanced skills in MS Office (Access, Excel, maybe Word) really gives one a good foundation for using those tools for information gathering and analysis. Many times an organisation is not going to either buy and off the shelf product or engage a consultant; esp with tightening budgets. An employee who has good skills in this area and good business and people skills too is pretty valuable, I'd say...
However, I'm always struck my the Doctor Zhivago movie. Become a Doctor, we always need Doctors... It seems to me you've got the smarts.
That's for sure. Learning the semantics and syntax of a programming language is super easy. But developing software and programming is not that. The programming language is the easier part and not the most important one. Solid architecture and algorithms are what make the difference. And by the way, developing an operating system is truly different from developing a reminder software.