Step 1. Open Excel
Step 2. Start building your model.
Or...
Step 1. Open VSCode or PyCharm
Step 2. Front-end... hmmm, web? Electron? Qt? Jupyter?
Step 3. venv
Step 4. pip
Step 5. SqlAlchemy? Psycopg? Raw SQL? Import CSV?
Step 6. "Where we gonna host this? Local? Cloud? Serverless? Do we need Docker? K8s?"
Step 7. git init
Step 8. "Hey, do any of you know what these mean on the specs? IRR? COGS? NPV? I studied CompSci, not this lame finance bullshit"
Step 9. Call up Fred from Accounting for some help.
Step 10. Fred starts with Step 1, above.
Step 3. Ponder the necessity of having a computer more powerful than a potato when you're going to do the work in the cloud anyway, while you wait for the Internet connection to come back.
Step 4. Build your model.
Step 5. Take a break to watch silly cat videos.
Step 6. Lose your model, and all models you previously made, as Google banned your account, and all associated accounts, for the crime of using emojis in a YouTube comment.
Or...
Step 1. Open VSCode or PyCharm Step 2. Front-end... hmmm, web? Electron? Qt? Jupyter? Step 3. venv Step 4. pip Step 5. SqlAlchemy? Psycopg? Raw SQL? Import CSV? Step 6. "Where we gonna host this? Local? Cloud? Serverless? Do we need Docker? K8s?" Step 7. git init Step 8. "Hey, do any of you know what these mean on the specs? IRR? COGS? NPV? I studied CompSci, not this lame finance bullshit" Step 9. Call up Fred from Accounting for some help. Step 10. Fred starts with Step 1, above.