MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli 154
coondoggie writes "Computer users with rudimentary skills will be able to program via screen shots rather than lines of code with a new graphical scripting language called Sikuli that was devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a basic understanding of Python, people can write programs that incorporate screen shots of graphical user interface (GUI) elements to automate computer work. One example given by the authors of a paper about Sikuli is a script that notifies a person when his bus is rounding the corner so he can leave in time to catch it."
Here's a video demo of the technology, and a paper explaining the concept (PDF).
The Cow pat model (Score:5, Funny)
For years I have been asking for a softwsare development tool that allows me to write PHP code by throwing cow-pats at the screem with the Wiimote.
And my colleagues wat a tool that allows dispatching my bugs with the Wii gun attachment they use in "Quantum of Solace".
Yes, but can Sikuli be used to write Sikuli? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My grandmother knows python (Score:5, Funny)
"Computer users with rudimentary skills"..... "with a basic understanding of Python"?
Computer users with a rudimentary skill who do not have a basic understanding of Python can always build a Python programming AI in Lisp (or at least that's what I gathered from the MIT docs I browsed) and thus save themselves the trouble.
Re:How easy IS it? (Score:2, Funny)
We're trying to repress those memories, you insensitive clod!
The Sikuli School of Programming (Score:3, Funny)
loop
talkTo (self, "Don't program!")
Look (@ Pretty pictures)
endloop
endif