Computers are good for crunching numbers automating things 🖥

Often these days when you hear about computers all the talk is about big data, complicated software applications created by professional developers. You hear about geeks and nerds, crackers and theives. But rarely do you hear about the many things you can do with just a few lines of code.

While I doubt I’ll ever be a software developer or computer programmer, I’ve learned enough code to do a lot of simple things quickly piping together commands. Useful things that save time, extract meaning out of data, turn it into pretty good maps and charts.

A while back I got this book out from the library called, Python Programming: Automate the Boring Things. This actually seems like a good reason to use programming and scripting to get things done.