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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Go to [Codecademy](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python). It used to be free, and I think this course is still free. It’s a super beginner friendly way to learn a bit of Python. You’ll start with Hello World, and work your way towards writing simple scripts. It’s really not as rocket science as it might seem. The hardest part it finding a way to run your code.
It’s basically instructions for a computer to do. Each line is a bit of information that can be read by the computer to do something or read something.
It’s like when you put something together you bought from a store, say a bike. Usually you’d have a booklet that contains all the instructions. In the instructions, it either provides you information like what to screw, put what together, etc. And when you read the instructions, you follow what it tells you to do and what information it tells you necessary for performing the action to assemble all the bike parts together.
Now when someone means they’re writing a script to perform a action (in which the description you stated an example of automating a job), they mean that they are writing each line for the computer to read, and perform the action. Now in this case, they could be automating a job meaning they have written lines that performs the task for them repeatedly without having any setup or additional thing to do in order for it to work.
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