Making bots with AutoIt

[323]

Too much spam. Wasn't even a guide. Screw you all.

/thread

[Personoid]

I really really don't mean to offend you, but this is mostly badly paraphrased information taken from the site of AutoIt with some added, for lack of a better word, examples. AutoIt's a decent language. I've never ran into anything that was actually impossible to do with AutoIt (except multithreading, obviously). I really like AutoIt, actually, and I've never fully migrated away from it for desktop programs.

My point: Decent language, not a great tutorial. I give you a 3/10 for effort, but I'd recommend beefing it up. Your post is actually pretty confusing.

[323]

Im just teaching people ABOUT AutoIt. Like I said, its not much of a tutorial. Its more of an informational on AutoIt

[Personoid]

I understand that, but your post is actually mostly just weird. I don't want to just tear your post apart and tell you every little thing that seems off, but you'd be better off showing a few examples and linking them to the website's information rather than paraphrasing. Actually, you might be okay with quoting a few things the website says about AutoIt and explaining what they mean.

For example,

AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting.

Freeware: Free to use software.
BASIC-like: BASIC is another simple language. AutoIt was built with BASIC in mind. See the quote from wikipedia below.
Scripting language: A scripting language is, as I understand it, any language that is interpreted rather than compiled to machine code. This means the code you write is run through a program and that program handles all the in depth stuff. This leaves you, the user, with comparatively much less work than if you were working directly with, say, C++.

And so on. Also, GUI means graphical user interface. It's the window itself of any program with a window.

Am I making sense? It's just kind of strange to read through your post since you call AutoIt a program instead of a language and stuff like that.

Edit: here's that wiki quote.

The eight design principles of BASIC were:

1. Be easy for beginners to use.
2. Be a general-purpose programming language.
3. Allow advanced features to be added for experts (while keeping the language simple for beginners).
4. Be interactive.
5. Provide clear and friendly error messages.
6. Respond quickly for small programs.
7. Not to require an understanding of computer hardware.
8. Shield the user from the operating system.

Edit again:
I may sound like I'm just nitpicking, but here's an example or two of why your post is strange.
You say AutoIt uses a BASIC-like language, but that's not the case. AutoIt is a BASIC-like language. It's written in C++ and is modeled after BASIC, the programming language.
You also call AutoIt a program rather than a language, but I think I've already said that.
Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk.

[kyo1234]

I like the fact that you brought this program to my attention thanks

[323]

No problem, but like Personoid said, its truly not a program >.< Its more of a scripting language. And Personoid, the reason I don't add quotes to any of my posts is because I try to keep all my posts only info that I say, or stating what other things say in my own terms >.< And don't worry, you didn't come off as a jerk, you came off as informative Thanks!

[Gabe]

To be honest, I would imagine if you were looking at this tut in the first place you should have some basic background knowledge on most of those things anyway, so Personoid, I think your point is moot, but that's my opinion. If someone had a question about one of those, Google is a life saver. As he said, it was more of a heads up notice about AutoIt than a real tutorial.

[Personoid]

To be honest, I would imagine if you were looking at this tut in the first place you should have some basic background knowledge on most of those things anyway, so Personoid, I think your point is moot, but that's my opinion. If someone had a question about one of those, Google is a life saver. As he said, it was more of a heads up notice about AutoIt than a real tutorial.

OP called it a program and quite a few of his points were completely invalid, so I think you're the one with the moot point.

[XiRaX]

Basically all you showed to do was download.
This guide is garbage, don't even know why you ever put it in UGB.
The title of this should be "How to download AutoIt and what it does, vaguely"

[Gabe]

So because the OP has a few invalid points and a wrong word means that my point, centered around having at least a precursor knowledge of how programming or languages work and some of the vocab, makes my point moot? Not really. My point was meant to be applied to a range of tuts, not specifically this one. If you're gonna read a tutorial in a programming section, it generally helps to know something about programming first.

[Personoid]

So because the OP has a few invalid points and a wrong word means that my point, centered around having at least a precursor knowledge of how programming or languages work and some of the vocab, makes my point moot? Not really. My point was meant to be applied to a range of tuts, not specifically this one. If you're gonna read a tutorial in a programming section, it generally helps to know something about programming first.

The same should be true when you're writing a guide like this. As OP clearly doesn't have the prior knowledge of programming and the first response that wasn't me was "thank you for bringing this program to my attention," yes, your point is moot. I agree that you would normally be right, but I also remind you that this particular post was even directed at people with no prior knowledge. OP even says that AutoIt is useful if you don't know a language such as C++. So yes, regarding this post, your point is moot. You can turn it around all you want, but it doesn't make you any less wrong.