Ryan Morlok’s Blog

I dropped the final revision of the VBA book Dusty, Marsha, and I have been writing off at the publisher this afternoon. It’s great to get that project completed, so I can fully focus on my thesis. The book was the single largest writing project I’ve ever attempted. I probably did about 70% of the writing for it, which totals about 100 pages. Granted, there are a lot of screenshots and code fragments in there, but that’s still a bit of writing if you’ve ever sat down at the keyboard and tried to crank something like that out.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the project, we set out to write a book that teaches VBA programming in Microsoft Excel. There are other books like this out there, but this one is specifically targettted to the material taugh in CS 105, the course for which I’ve been a TA for the last 4 semesters. The goal of the project not give the students more material in the book than we teach in class, and to explain things in complementary ways.

If you’d like to view it, I’ve posted it here, though I’ll probably take down that link in a few days, as that version doesn’t contain any of the copyright stuff. I wrote chapters 1-7, Dusty wrote 8-10, and Marsha was the principle reviewer.

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