2 Visual Basic® for Applications Programming
2.1 INTRODUCTION
Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) is a computer programming language. This short introduction is not intended as a complete course on computer programming. However, programming involves things that engineers are good at: calculating the results of formulas and equations, making logical decisions, and designing algorithms (steps to be used to solve a particular problem). VBA is only one of a host of programming languages, some of which are FORTRAN, C, or C++. The reason for using VBA instead of any other language is that it allows the use of Excel® worksheets for both input and output ...
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