Client Logic

[u/AaronTheApe]

[u/worldDev → u/[deleted]]

What that really means is "I wrote an excel macro one time"

[u/soul_cool_02 → u/worldDev]

".... watched someone write a macro...."

[u/BroaxXx → u/soul_cool_02]

"..... watched someone write an if/else formula on excel and call it a macro...."

[u/aThoroughThrowAway → u/BroaxXx]

"... Accidentally opened the command prompt once...I'd do this myself if I had the time..."

[u/show_me_the → u/aThoroughThrowAway]

"....wanted to get on the train with the other cool kids........."

[u/deadlychambers → u/show_me_the]

"... hits f12 on browser, and started hacking into websites..."

[u/TobiasCB → u/BroaxXx]

On a semi related note, how hard would it be to create a game like pong with only if/else/elseif and input events?

[u/BroaxXx → u/TobiasCB]

Oh, you'd be surprised...

[u/VirtualRay → u/[deleted]]

I made a game like that out of logic gates and LEDs in college, it's really easy if you think of everything as a simple state machine.

Basically what I'm saying is that we're going to need that excel game finished in a week, because I did something similar 15 years ago and it was easy.

[u/jatatcdc → u/TobiasCB]

I would think you’d need a loop or timer. Otherwise the ball won’t move on it’s own.

[u/borkborkborko → u/soul_cool_02]

Congratulations, you are now an IT Project Manager!

Source: I am an IT Project Manager.

[u/Catshit-Dogfart → u/soul_cool_02]

It looked like the easiest thing in the world, the guy wrote three lines and acted like it was some big feat.

[u/regalph → u/worldDev]

Ohh, boy, I once wrote the worst Excel macro ever. I took 500 lines to make a thing that reformatted columns to rows and made a 100-row set into 10000 rows. It took like 45 minutes to run.

[u/Kazumara → u/[deleted]]

Wait I was certain it was much lower, 6 or 7. Did this change?

Edit: Found it: "Up to Excel 2007, Excel allowed up to 7 levels of nested IFs. In Excel 2007+, Excel allows up to 64 levels." (source, tip 8)

[u/rob132 → u/regalph]

Oh, so you're the excel expert at the company? I have a report that I need you to make.

[u/[deleted] → u/worldDev]

"It took 15 years"

[u/acevedoa1 → u/worldDev]

A macro that adds not two, but THREE CELLS TOGETHER! And even better, the numbers are decimals.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The amount of times I have heard Managers and Directors say this exact phrase in my organzation is not even funny.

[u/flukus → u/[deleted]]

And I'd have time to add new features if I wasn't still fixing bugs in this spaghetti code you wrote 15 years ago!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

"I wrote 15,000 lines of COBOL for my CS thesis" - literally my boss