Do a boring job once — let the computer do it forever.

Automation means writing a chore down as steps a computer can follow. In this free lesson you run a safe script that sorts a messy folder into Images, PDFs and Other — it shows you its plan first and never deletes or overwrites anything.

What you’ll learn

• What automation really is (no jargon)
• Running a sorting script on a practice folder
• Reading how it decides where each file goes
• Trying it safely on a copy of your own Downloads
• Recovering from the usual mistakes

What you get

• A step-by-step lesson with real screenshots
• A 30-second explainer video
• sort_downloads.py and a messy practice folder

Who it’s for: beginners who’ve done What is Python?

Time: about 15 minutes.

Next lesson: What is an API?