Finance person through and through, wanted to dab a little into programming for career development. What program do you think would be helpful? Python? Tableau?
You said it is for career development, so I'd target stuff that helps either automating or with analytics. The general purpose things here are Python, R, SAS and SQL. I personally would go with Python and SQL in that order.
Excel and SQL. Then VBA and powershell. Maybe python for fun but there’s nothing in it that can’t be done with Powershell and VBA. I think powershell in particular is overlooked by end users. The thing rocks
He said he wants to explore programming. Wouldn't a general purpose language that has rich analytics and data processing support more sense than excel and vba? Btw does Excel or VBA interface with Spark or Tensorflow?
OP isn’t trying to become a programmer. The best way to learn programming is by using it in everyday routine. Excel, SQL and powershell would cover everything a typical finance person does. OP would actually find utility is these things which would prompt him to learn them better, then the skills would stick and develop. Tensorflow is not something OP would use, normally. He’d play with it and forget
C++ master race
Excel VBA Scripting
Python is easy and widely used. Plus a good jump off point for other things
Python can get complex beyond a point just like other languages. Depends on usage, frameworks, efficiency and few other factors..
It’s also a garbage of a language
Python, SQL And maybe JavaScript
Python and SQL.
When I was independent I used python for all my finance programs
Definitely Python.
When I worked at a bank, most ppl were programming in Visual Basic and installing a Python package took a 2 week approval process which was part of why I noped out, but if you’re committed it’s good to use whatever your peers and coworkers are using. I’d approach it by finding some task you want to automate at work and see what tools are available to you to do that. If I was just gonna learn skills for the sake of having skills I’d probably get good at SQL and then maybe R.
I worked at Barclays and we were using tools from 2001...I was there in 2012. Left as soon as I could.
It’s changed now. I am working at Barclays. I am using latest technologies.