Is learning programming worth it? Outside of a career, what can I do with programming? (sh.itjust.works)

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I learned a little bit of python back in college with the hope that it would give me a competitive edge in the field I hoped to enter. Lo and behold, I got a job in a different industry entirely and any knowledge of coding I once had became irrelevant.

Would it be worth it to pick up my python textbook again and self-teach in my free time if I don't want to make a career of coding? What exactly can python be used to create?

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[-] MoistBalls@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'm still very new at Python but would it be possible to use it to automate updating Excel from a company website (sorta like JIRA or Projects) and vice versa?

[-] Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I don't use JIRA myself, but after a brief search it looks like you can use the JIRA Python library or pull data directly from the REST api fairly easily. I know there are several libraries and methods to interact with Excel using Python, so I am fairly confident your user case would be doable with some scripting.

The userbase of Python is so large that for almost anything you might want to do it's likely someone else has already worked out a solution and created a library for it. For everything else, you can make your own solution and share it for the next person with that same problem.

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