I see people saying “I wrote a script to automate my job” or “I wrote a script to search for xxxx” and I have no idea what that means besides “computer stuff.”
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Have you ever bought a piece of furniture from IKEA? If so, you’re probably familiar with that little booklet that comes with it that shows you how to assemble it. At a high level, it’s a script. It’s a set of instructions that tell you how to accomplish a task. Sometimes those instructions are even conditional, like only needing to attach mounting brackets when you’re attaching furniture to a wall and that step can be skipped if you’re using the furniture as a free-standing item.
A computer script is basically the same thing as that instruction booklet. The only difference is that instead of being written for a human to do each step, a computer script is written for a computer to execute each step. Therefore you can build up from small things that someone else has programmed the computer to know how to do into more complex tasks that have more steps. And you can use conditional steps to make the script adapt to the current conditions or desired result.
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