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How can programs make our lives easier? Learn how programmers use scripts to automate complex, repetitive, or time-consuming tasks. To operate on large amounts of data, we need a way to organize it. What kinds of data can we store in an ordered sequence?

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 : automation with early computers
00:45 : what is a script?
01:23 : data organization – sequences
02:08 : automating everyday tasks

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