UiPath Agentic RPA - Tech Primer

Install Python and set up the PyCharm Community Edition to support Robot Framework automation, including configuring path, pip, and a local development folder.

Explore how files and extensions work in windows, and how UiPath handles file operations—list, create, rename, copy, move, observe, and pass full paths—across local and cloud environments.

Demonstrate how a modern RPA tool surpasses batch files by building a multi-activity workflow in UiPath Studio, including start process, sequences, and use application browser to automate folders and websites.

Explore how to create clear flowcharts using the free draw.io tool, covering shapes, connectors, pages, layers, formatting, and linking subprocesses for end-to-end process mapping.

Explore the basics of html for building web pages, including html, head, body, and title tags, and learn to use PyCharm for live updates and to inspect selectors and locators.

Learn the core web technologies behind modern applications, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. Explore the DOM, tags, and attributes that structure and style web pages.

Learn how HTML semantic tags like header, nav, section, article, aside, and footer structure a web page, including headers and footers inside articles or sections and varying nav placement.

Explore UiPath studio selectors by comparing before and after pages on automation playground, observe id attributes and element order changes, and identify challenges on page two with no attributes.

Learn how dynamic selectors in UiPath use wildcards like the asterisk and question mark to handle changing element IDs, improving reliability through validation and repair.

Create a console application in visual studio to learn text-based interactions, the difference between console and desktop apps, and basic project setup steps.

Create and run a simple VB.NET console app in Visual Studio, rename modules, and use solution explorer to understand build, debug, and release output in bin folders.

Learn to build reusable UiPath automations by extracting workflows, invoking them with arguments, and publishing libraries to orchestrator while composing a process with read file, login, and logout steps.

Explore the .NET framework as a collection of libraries with pre imagined interactions that speeds development, and apply the DRY principle in UiPath projects.

See how a central database stores employees, customers, products, and orders across business systems. Learn three access points for rpa bots—ui, api, and direct database—and how policies shape data access.

Compare a database to an Excel workbook with separate tables for customers and products, then show how SQL queries read, insert, update, and delete data on a server.