[Scott Douglas]

You need to add an explanation of what LLM stands for.

I once had an assignment at work to develop a way to predict what it would cost to manufacture a machined part.

I knew nothing about 'programing'.

I used Excel to make my program. I started off by figuring out how to get a cell to change the value in one cell based on what another cell had in it.

It's a very powerful tool once you get into it. I wish I'd kept a copy of what I came up with.

While I was working on it I came upon a problem with an if/then statement that was four layers deep. I asked the in house computer programmer for some help. He looked at what I had come up with and offered me a job. He said he had guys who'd been working for him for 3 years who couldn't have come up with what I did.

When it was finished you could take a drawing for a part and based on answers for the 20 or so questions I'd come up with (with dialog boxes coming up to ask the questions) it would give you an estimated cost. You could even change the type of material used and it'd recalculate the cost for you, almost instantly.

It was some of the most fun I had ever had while working.