Oh boy, we don't need any more Excel abuse then there already is...
You wouldn't believe the kind of behemoth Excel monstrosities there are out there. Because when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
You wouldn't believe the kind of behemoth Excel monstrosities there are out there. Because when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
Perhaps "teaching them Excel" will lead to a deep understanding. Perhaps "teaching them Excel" will just be like how I "learned" Excel back in high school- a teacher standings in front of the class just saying "press this button, now press this button."
Excel abuse was cited as a part of the reason JPMorgan lost 6 billion dollars.
I don't know...
Excel's strength is that people are actually productive enough to start using and make something useful. Whether people make substandard houses with a hammer isn't really the tool's problem. Being too difficult to pick up is.
You might argue there is some quality bar that should be met before a creation is put into production, which is fine, but that's independent of the tool used to make it.