SPL Programming

Yes, this is a programming course for business people. Many people are confused. They think that only programmers need to be able to program, and programming is very difficult.

However, it is not. Programming is not exclusive to programmers. Like foreign language and Excel, it is just a tool to help us improve our work efficiency. It can help us perform some repetitive and inefficient work, and let us spend more time and energy on the more important things.

To process tabular data in the past, you might have to spell, copy, paste, sort, search, and repeat over and over, and still you couldn't work it out for a long time. Now, as long as the data is put into the program, the report that the boss and customers want can be automatically produced in less than half a minute.

Because this book narrates clearly, from the shallow to the deep, starts from the 0 foundation to explain the basic concept of programming, and proceeds step by step. After learning and mastering the contents of this book, it is much easier to learn various other programming languages.

The book contains programs designed specifically for business people to process tabular data, after all, we should learn to apply them. Learning programming is to deal with the work at hand, and dealing with tabular data is a task that business people have to do every day:

• Financial Accounting: programming can help you automatically integrate, categorize and summarize tables (e.g. frequently changing tax rate calculations).
• Media operation: capture data, divide customers into groups, targeted operation, etc.
• Marketing personnel: automatically draw a visual table, objective and clear.
• Human resources: a variety of overlapping personnel information tables.
• etc. …

Yes, they are inappropriate, TRULY.

There is no problem to use Python to learn the basic programming concept and logic. However, after learning these contents, you can only solve some arithmetical problems in primary and secondary schools, which is not helpful for daily work. If you want to use Python to process the tabular data that the business people have to deal with every day, it can only be said that it looks simple, but in fact, it is quite difficult to learn. Because pandas(it IS pandas, no mistake) doesn't consider and organize tabular data in your habitual way of thinking. It's not designed for this purpose. It's just that there is no more suitable tool on the market at present and people use it as an alternative. Obviously, and of course, Python is not suitable for business people to learn programming. (after learning this book and then take a look at python, you will agree with me with both hands up!)

We use SPL, a programming language written in cells (like programming in Excel). It is easy to understand, easy to install and debug. In particular, SPL provides a wealth of professional tabular data processing capabilities, which can be used after learning. It is no problem to solve excel difficulties, and it can even get big data done(while python will be paralyzed).

Pull programming down the altar, let 0-based beginners learn programming easily.