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I totally agree that learning "just coding" per se should not be a goal. It should also help to solve some of your real problems and automation is one of the to

I totally agree that learning "just coding" per se should not be a goal. It should also help to solve some of your real problems and automation is one of the topic that is very likely you need to solve. When you do something that you like and at the same time need it pays off twice. In fact I got most of my programming skills by implementing simple automation task that I needed. I highly recommend AutoHotkey ( https://www.autohotkey.com/ https://www.autohotkey.com/ ) if you are interested in automation. It is programming language with great automation capabilities and wonderful helpful community (last one is very important if you are new to programming).

Noumenon72 7y ago
I just changed jobs from developing on Windows to developing on a Linux virtual machine in Windows. I miss AutoHotkey so much. There are so many things that the command line can't do -- GUI commands, window switchers, and so on. It's a great example of how "learn to automate" can beat "learn to code". When you know how to do something by hand, learning enough about a program's API to do the same thing is a separate learning curve and may not be possible. Telling AutoHotkey "Do it like I do by hand, just faster" always works.
- pletnes 7y ago
  Pyautogui does some of the things AHK does.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  I thought there was an AHK clone for Linux? Also, I've had good luck with xdotool.
  - earenndil 7y ago
    Autokey.
- pwg 7y ago
  > There are so many things that the command line can't do -- GUI commands, window switchers, and so on. Check out "xdotool": https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/