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General Software Discussion / What do non-programmers need to automate?
« on: August 28, 2013, 09:38 PM »
Hello all, I write programming books for kids and complete beginners. They're available under a Creative Commons license and you can read them online at http://inventwithpython.com.
For my next book, I wanted to teach programming to office workers, students, administrators, and other people who aren't software developers but use a computer every day. If they just had some programming knowledge, they would be able to automate repetitive boring tasks.
This seemed like a good place to ask for ideas as to what kinds of things they would automate a computer to do (web scraping, renaming/deleting/moving files, keyboard & mouse macros, simple text processing, etc.) I have a list of a few ideas here: http://alsweigart.tu...ing-stuff-a-guide-to
But can anyone make additional suggestions?
This book will also be freely available under a Creative Commons license, and I'm hoping to have it done by summer.
For my next book, I wanted to teach programming to office workers, students, administrators, and other people who aren't software developers but use a computer every day. If they just had some programming knowledge, they would be able to automate repetitive boring tasks.
This seemed like a good place to ask for ideas as to what kinds of things they would automate a computer to do (web scraping, renaming/deleting/moving files, keyboard & mouse macros, simple text processing, etc.) I have a list of a few ideas here: http://alsweigart.tu...ing-stuff-a-guide-to
But can anyone make additional suggestions?
This book will also be freely available under a Creative Commons license, and I'm hoping to have it done by summer.