In this 2-day session, you will develop a love for developer tools, using them to automate your workflow, WITHOUT becoming a full-blown programmer or scripter (who has the time?). This course empowers you to use the Apple Developer Tools to solve your problems, whether you are a media developer, or a system administrator, or anything else you use OS X for. You will learn basic, but powerful automation and scripting techniques that will launch you into the wonderful world of automation, allowing you to spend more time doing more important things in life. We will focus on Property Lists, the Defaults Preferences system, and launchd, the underpinnings to automation. We will then move into Automator and AppleScript. At the end of day 1, we will select amongst the class some important real-world workflow problems, and then focus on day 2 with solving those problems. You WILL be able to leave this session with the techniques you need to get started automating.

class length: 3 days

who should attend? Anyone wishing to learn how to automate on Mac OS X what will you learn? The basics of programming syntax?Planning out your ideas using Flowcharts and Pseudocode?Understand how the Mac OS X environment works?Use shell scripts, applescripts, command-line, and preferences

prerequisites: Knowledge of Mac OS X?You Do Not need ANY programming, scripting, or automation experience of ANY kind

recommended next steps: AUTO201 Advanced OS X Automation