This tutorial provides information from the "Programming" section of the "Informatics" course, read by students of the Institute of Economics and Analysis, as well as other institutes of NRNU MEPhI. Lecture texts include coverage of the main fundamental programming issues in any algorithmically complete operator programming language using the example of the office programming language VBA for Excel, which meets the requirement of algorithmic completeness. Each laboratory work contains questions on the topic under study, which students need to answer before performing it. Examples of programs that students create and debug during laboratory work demonstrate the technology of creating a variety of useful applications. The textbook is intended for students - future bachelors who master the theoretical foundations and practical programming skills when solving substantive problems of various types, as well as teachers who give lectures and conduct laboratory work on these courses in computer classes.