Glossary term
What is Automation?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Automation" means: Getting a program to do the steps of a task for you instead of doing them by hand. It is taught in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code) and Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses.
- 3 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Automation?
Getting a program to do the steps of a task for you instead of doing them by hand. (From Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work. 2 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Automation mean in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work?
Getting a program to do the steps of a task for you instead of doing them by hand.
What does Automation mean in Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code)?
One rule that does a job for you when something happens, like adding a row to a sheet when a form arrives.
What does Automation mean in Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses?
A job the computer does for you by following rules, so nobody has to copy and paste by hand.
Where is Automation taught?
Automation is defined in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code) and Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses.
Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring WorkBuild AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code)Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses
Which lessons cover Automation?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, lesson 1.3: Loop, Decide, Act: The Shape of Every Automation
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code), lesson 1.1: Automations, Workflows and Agents: Three Different Things
- Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses, lesson 1.1: What an automation agency sells, and what it does not
- Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses, lesson 1.2: The anatomy of a workflow: triggers, actions, data and rules
- Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses, lesson 1.4: Your free practice lab: tools, accounts and a sandbox business
- Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses, lesson 2.1: Where small businesses lose time: six workflow families
Which terms are related to Automation?
Next to Automation in the course glossaries: Script, terminal, Virtual environment (venv), Package, Workflow, Trigger, Action, Run history and Field.
ScriptterminalVirtual environment (venv)PackageWorkflowTriggerActionRun historyField
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Automation?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work: Basic Python: variables, if statements, for loops, lists, dictionaries, f-strings and small functions. Lesson 3 of module 1 has a five-minute check.
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code): Comfortable using email, a web browser, and a spreadsheet (rows and columns; formulas are not needed).
- Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses: No coding skills required.