Google Apps Script for Beginners

Preface

A couple of years ago, I was asked by a colleague to create a form to collect invitation responses for a show that our school was organizing. Like most computer users, I had some experience with spreadsheets and had used them from time to time to do some basic calculations, so I created a form with the results in a spreadsheet.

At this point, I simply wanted to count the responses and show the result somehow. As I didn't know how to get a clear view of these results and a simple addition of numbers was not very attractive to look at, I decided to take a quick peek at the documentation to see how to write a "macro" to eventually get things to look better.

Three days later, the spreadsheet had a custom menu. It had functions that showed me ...