Visual Basic; useful for an analyst?
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on 9/29/11 at 6:32am
This is my first post so forgive me for my sins!
As part of my degree programme, I've the option to take an elective in Visual Basic. I'm aware that programming skills are particularly useful in analyst roles within IB and S&T. However, with so many programming languages in use, how relevant is VB in reality?
Thanks for all advice offered. :-)






VB.NET or VBA? I'm assuming
VB.NET or VBA? I'm assuming you mean VBA. Very useful for monotonous work and rapid reiteration. You will definitely save time in the long run if you take advantage of it. The former is a full-on development language and would not be necessary for the responsibilities of a junior spreadsheet monkey.
VBA is very relevant in AM.
VBA is very relevant in AM. I would suggest taking the elective as being able to code Excel and various other MS Office app's is extremely useful.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt
Very useful, but might not
Very useful, but might not warrant an entire class. You can learn 90% of what you need to know from a book and the other 10% from google.
Use this one. It takes you through building models strictly using excel functions and then has you rebuild it with VBA.
http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Analysis-Modeling-...
Visual Basic is easy to study
Visual Basic is easy to study for a beginner. But currently microsoft shifted their concenration from vb.net to c# http://csharp.net-informations.com . Because nowadays C# is getting popularity and is demanded in job market. Logically C# and vb.net are same but in syntaxwise these two are different. It is better you to follow c# than vb.net.
wills.