marekr

You should consider and try to quantify risk: - how much cost is to take classes you consider irrelevant (is it that much?) - the uncertainty whether you are right that those classes are in fact irrelevant - the probability of encountering situations in your future life in which you'd benefit from having a degree

Would it be beneficial if your dad was able to achieve the same on his own by using the language?

Just by reading your list of requirements.. Google Docs?

Do you mean transition from specific spreadsheets you would already have for that task? Or in a wider sense, e.g. as a company - gradually transition from using spreadsheets to using applications for some of the tasks?