Thoughts on learning Coding/VBA

[Rolltide]

Let me begin by saying I have no knowledge what so ever in coding and little experience with VBA for Excel. That being said, I feel both of these are valuable assets to have under your belt. At a pure beginner level, does anyone know any books or classes that helped them with either of these? Im looking to get into equity research, can anyone in the field provide insight as to the importance of both of these and maybe if I should focus on one and not the other? Any information is greatly appreciated, thanks!

 

[Ramos4rm]

I would search the forum…we’ve had threads about this before.

 

[PalacioHill]

Get “VBA for Dummies” by John Walkenback and start writing small macros. Once you get a hadle on the language and the syntax, get his book “Power Programming with VBA”. Remember, you don’t learn VBA by reading a book. You need to create projects that utilize VBA to really learn the language. The internet is also the best source for finding solutions to specific problems you might have.

 

[hf-rat]

There’s tons of materials on the web - books, tutorials, forums. As long as you have the will to learn…

 

[former trader]

We live in an era with tons of free materials. Use them wisely, but nothing beats practice in a professional, stressful environment.

 

[pablosdad]

I agree with PalacioHill, the fastest way is to work on a specific project in the development team (if your company has an IT department, or an pure IT company is even better). If you can “suffer” for three months in this environment (start by looking at the code and then doing simple code maintenance or testing job), I am sure three months later, at least you will feel very confident when you look at any VBA code used in finance.