Robotic Process Automation: Tech Primer [Released: 1/9/2025]

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a powerful way to develop software-based robots to automate repetitive and manual tasks. To get started in RPA, it's important to master a broad base of business and technical skills.

In this course, instructor Bryan Lamb reviews these core skills, including flowchart fundamentals, file system basics, and important programming concepts. Learn how to build detailed flowcharts to document enterprise processes spanning multiple technologies, including email, documents, databases, websites, mainframes, and APIs. Discover how to navigate the Windows file system from top to bottom, in order to read and write data from text, PDF, spreadsheet, database, and other files. Explore the structure and programming behind websites and learn how to select and manipulate individual web elements. Explore programming concepts and database basics, and test your learning with a challenge at the end of the course.

Learning objectives

Summarize flowchart fundamentals.

• Describe Windows file system concepts.
• Outline the Visual Studio installation process.
• Create a simple webpage.
• Name three common web technologies.
• Explain web and UiPath selector basics.
• Develop a simple computer program.