Have you ever been in one of the following scenarios?

• You work at a sports club and would like to compare the list of subscribers from this year to the one from last year and calculate the turnover.
• You have been using computers for many years but have never really understood how software works.
• You work at a shop and need to schedule employee shifts.
• You have 2 hours of audio and need to analyse it.
• You have a corpus (text) of 4M words and would like to know which words are the most frequent.
• You have been wanting to get into programming but have always felt too intimidated.
• You would like to teach some basic programming skills to your students but find programming languages too convoluted.
• You would like to provide subtitles to a video.

Then this is exactly where you are meant to be. Learn to code while building confidence and real-world applications: a handbook to Praat scripting is a programming manual dedicated to all of you who would like to learn the basics before getting into heavy-duty programming. The Praat programming language is simple enough to help you grasp some basic notions of programming, pick your curiosity and accompany you out of your comfort zone.