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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 1 by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

"Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 1" is aimed at learners who are seeking to augment, expand, optimize, and increase the efficiency of their Excel spreadsheet skills by tapping into the powerful programming, automation, and customization capabilities available with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). This course is the first part of a three-part series and Specialization that focuses on the application of computing techniques in Excel/VBA to solve problems. In this course (Part 1), you will: 1) create macros to automate procedures in Excel; 2) define your own user-defined functions; 3) create basic subroutines to interface with the user; 4) learn the basic programming structures in VBA; and 5) automate Excel’s Goal Seek and Solver tools and use numerical techniques to create “live solutions” to solve targeting and optimization problems. New to computer programming? The extremely intuitive and visual nature of VBA lends itself nicely to teaching and learning - what a fun way to learn to code! No prior knowledge in programming nor advanced math skills are necessary yet seasoned programmers will pick up new and creative spreadsheet problem solving strategies. After you have learned the basics of VBA, each module will introduce foundational and broad problems inspired by situations that you might encounter in the real world. To pass each module, you'll need to pass a mastery quiz and complete a problem solving assignment. This course is unique in that the weekly assignments are completed in-application (i.e., on your own computer in Excel), providing you with valuable hands-on training....

Top reviews

MS

Jan 26, 2018

Great course! I like it goes straight to implementation and is practice-oriented. What could be improved maybe is sound quality of lectures. And maybe it would be great to have some VBA notes in pdf.

JH

Apr 2, 2020

Very good course with clear examples throughout to help you develop. The online format of the course is great as it allows you to pause and work through the activities presented at your own speed.

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By chady a

Aug 13, 2021

Very interesting. Good start good basics. no regrets for the course. i recommend to go on with the following courses

By SAHIL C 2

Apr 28, 2022

Very good course for learning VBA in short period of time that too in way more easier way than any other platform.

By Gerome M

Mar 16, 2020

This was great. I love the fact that he dives into what makes things work and how things should be. Give this a try

By Ivan A G

Nov 30, 2019

This is an excelent course, and I learnt a lot about it . And I'm certantly sure that it will help me for my career

By Ahmed r

Jan 16, 2021

It is an amazing Course, Excellent explanation and Concentrated Dose of Knowledge

Thank you Dr. Charlie from Egypt

By jitendra c

Apr 29, 2020

Since , i am from other domain. In spite of this , the course is quite user interacting. Thanks Charlie Nuttelman.

By Dhruv K

Jul 30, 2019

It has been really insightful and learnt a lot about VBA. Looking forward for Part 2 and Part 3. Thank you Charlie

By M B

May 31, 2023

This course is just great. Thank you, Charlie, you are a great teacher. Efficient and fast, using great examples.

By Andrés A S N

Sep 23, 2022

It is a pretty good course, it can only improve if it has a version more business oriented. But overall awesome!

By Eduardo M C

Mar 3, 2021

Excellent, very interesting exercises and very complete and difficult challenges in VBA but that´s how you learn.

By Andrés F G S

May 24, 2020

This course was very challenging, and allowed me to develop skills related to creativity and how I solve problems

By Willem V

Apr 28, 2020

Sometimes it took some time to solve the course assignments, but when finally successful it feels quite rewarding

By Levi G T

Jul 31, 2019

It's clear, it's fun, it's useful. Recommended for everyone, whether or not they have previous coding experience

By Youji

Feb 1, 2024

Enjoyable course. I previously do not know a lot about VBA and this really helps me to grasp the basic concepts.

By Manuel R

Oct 30, 2020

Curso serio e interesante. Te hace pensar y trabajar, consiguiendo que aprendas. De lo mejor que he visto en VBA

By Armando L

Aug 16, 2020

Great course and challenging. Looking forward to keep studying these subjects.

Thank you so much for everything.

By Chun-Wing L

Dec 18, 2019

very good course structure, it really helped me to learn about VBA Excel in a very pleasant and accessible way!

By Tina B

Jun 7, 2019

Really enjoyed this course. I used VBA before, so could go through a bit quicker, but still very useful for me.

By Yuliia H

Jun 30, 2019

Хороший курс, очень продуманные задания и вопросы. К каждому по итогу дается детальное объяснение. Рекомендую.

By José A

Jun 24, 2022

Curso prático e útil para atividades de trabalho e pessoais.

Manipulação e análise de dados em planilha Excel.

By Andreas T

Dec 12, 2021

Excellent course! It brought me a lot forward! Compliments to Charlie Nuttelmann for his nice way of talking!

By Prithu M S

Nov 22, 2021

I think the Instructor has done a great job of showing the ropes of learning the VBA programming environment.

By Luis A M G

Jul 3, 2020

Muy útil para cualquiera que estudie Ingeniería o carreras afines ya que permite sacar mucho provecho a Excel

By David R V M

May 2, 2020

It is a great course, very dynamic and useful for getting started with VBA. I'm definitely taking the part 2.

By Yuliya K

Feb 18, 2021

Good course.

it would be nice if at the end of each week there was a presentation with the covered material.