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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.

MV

Jan 18, 2020

Great course!! For a Part I it introduces you to useful functions and ways to approach different kind of problems. Challenging course but reasonable with low algebra. Exactly what I was looking for.

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Jul 14, 2020

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Amazing

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May 29, 2020

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May 18, 2021

Useful

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Aug 12, 2018

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Jul 9, 2020

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Oct 15, 2018

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Jun 21, 2018

nice

By Linda A L

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Sep 21, 2019

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By Jeremy K

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Apr 2, 2023

This is a great starter course for learning VBA. The instructor is clear, with examples that are easy to follow. I have two small gripes with this course: The quizzes are an appropriate difficulty but I found that the assignments were far too easy, and not thorough enough to provide enough actual practice for students to cement their understanding of the topics. I keep finding myself reviewing my old assignments/screencasts to see what I did because they were so quick and easy that I didn't really get much practice doing them. I plan to do extra practice questions from other websites after I finish Parts 2 + 3. Hopefully Part 3 will provide the practice that I feel I'm missing here. Another thing is really small, but I wish the instructor wouldn't zoom in and out constantly on the screencasts. A single, static screen recording is sufficient. When the screen is moving around it's hard to read the code without pausing constantly, and trying to time the pause before it moves again.

It would be great if the instructor provided a document/index/cheatsheet that quickly described the functions used and the respective syntax. Overall, I would recommend this course! Just make sure you practice outside of it too :)