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Automated scripting

I would like to run a script to submit online sweepstakes.  I have no programming experience.  I am just interested in how this is done and to begin to learn how to run automated scripts.  It should be generic so I can update it with more or less personal information... any programming language as I do not know any.  And maybe you could suggest which language I could begin to learn first.

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this question is as vage as asking "how goes the world arround", I guess you won't get a usefull answer (except someone guesses your personal favorities:)

Anyway, assuming that "online" means a web page to be feed with some data, I'd use something like:

  wget 'http://sweepsatkes.tld/whatever?var1=value1&var2=value2&var42=value42'

And that be started using cron. Ready you go.

If you want to "update with personal information" I guess it is no longer automatic but interactive (exactly what a web form is for, usually:)
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I want to enter online sweepstakes with information like my name address emai and phone number.  I want it to send the information every five minutes.
I have no idea what your are writing... is that code... does it go somewhere.... what language......
I have no idea what you're asking for .. which code .. where to go .. which language ...
I already told you that this question is to vage to give a proper answer, I lost my cristal ball ...
Hence I gave you an example to be used in a shell. This example can be added as I posted to a crontab file as used by all Unix/Linux systems. Ready you go.
Here I go again.  I want to autmatically submit information to any website I choose to enter sweepstakes.  Usually they ask for name, email, and phone number.  I want to send this information (or enter) the sweepstakes over and over again without me actually typing in all the information.,

In other words I want it to happen automatically.  I don't care what language the code is in, since I do not know any languages.  I will use this as a starting basis to learn code.

I can't get any clearer than this.
> I don't care what language the code is ..
well, then what I suggested fulfils all your requirements.
What's the problem with it?

> I can't get any clearer than this.
hmm, probably you fist start with telling us the OS you want to use.
xp - microsoft....  server 2003.... i dont know linyk
don't know mickysoft, sorry, but IIRC there is something called scheduler
you have to install a proper tool (like wget, lynx, curl) first to do requests from the shell, or build your own program (using whatever language you bought for your system)
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TAVA would be the best language to learn and it would to all those things.. There are some excellent books by Kilgore Trout on how to use TAVA for automated web environments.

Good Luck.
A Macro Program might be easier since you do not have any programming experience.. If all you want to do is fill out forms maybe something like this would work

http://www.sharewareplaza.com/4IE-iMacros-Web-Macro-Recorder-download_24883.html
And it's JAVA not TAVA sorry typo..

Something like this.. http://www.junit.org/index.htm

But you will have a hard time just Learning high level Java coding just bing bang boom.  And it would be quite some time before you  could really do anything so go with the link above..
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disagreed, I gave a working solution
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