Reddit reviews Excel VBA Programming For Dummies

> What you are saying is pretty true and I know that VBA really popular among "real" programmers, but a lot of companies I talk to request skills in VBA for Excel.

That's fair enough... but indulge me here for one moment.

If you were a close friend of mine and you came to me with this question, and I knew you were capable of handling it, my advice to you would be to learn another language before learning VBA. I say that to you as a guy who's first language was VB 4, and whose first job outside of working at a supermarket was programming Excel applications in VBA.

VBA is almost never the right tool for the job. As such, there are things you can do in other languages with other toolkits that will far exceed what you can do with VBA at the same level of skill. As such there will be entire classes of problems that you can solve that would be out of your reach if your only language is Visual Basic for Applications.

You will be a better programmer, you will be capable of more things with less effort, and in the end you can always go back and learn VBA to say that you know how to use it.

That being said, if your heart is set on VBA as your first language, I would check out one of the following two books:

Excel 2010 Power Programming with VBA

Excel VBA Programming For Dummies

This is the one I'm using and it's pretty decent.