When we talk about problem-solving skills, then, generally, programming comes to our
minds as an activity that can develop algorithmic thinking and abstraction. Regarding
the spreadsheet, the software application area could be
our first, and mathematics could be our second thought. When spreadsheets and programming
are mentioned together, programming of macros is in focus, which is in fact programming.
In this paper, we want to focus on how these two
areas impact each other, and we want to emphasize that the spreadsheet is an efficient
tool to develop algorithmic thinking. Moreover, there is more “crosstalk” between
these two tools. This paper will show through examples
that there is a two-way connection between spreadsheet and programming; that is why
it can be useful to build the concepts of these two topics mutually on each other.
