When I am wrangling a spreadsheet or filling out a web form, I often suspect that a computer could do the same thing. If you have ever felt the same, this class is for you. The goal of this class is to make programming accessible and useful by giving you the tools to automate your routine, repetitive, boring tasks. In the class, we will cover the two main approaches to automation. First, we will learn how to use programmatic interfaces to manipulate websites and other software. This means bypassing browsers and other interfaces, and communicating with programs directly using code (i.e., we will learn about APIs). Once you can do that, you can replace minutes or hours of manual effort with a single command! Second, we will learn how to manipulate our mice and keyboards directly to address the cases where direct communication with a program is not possible. If you are absolutely new to programming, that's no problem! In addition to being one of the most versatile and widely-used programming languages in the world, Python is very approachable. In your first session, you'll be able to write a simple program to interact with a website--without ever touching your browser.