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AutoMan
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
    • Installing Prerequisites
    • Tutorial: Obtain Mechanical Turk Credentials
    • Tutorial: Create an AutoMan Project
    • Tutorial: Write and Run Your First App
    • Pro Tip: Use the MTurk Sandbox
    • AutoMan Memoizer
    • Cleaning Up
  • Technical Documentation
    • What is AutoMan?
    • Getting AutoMan
    • Quick Start Guide
    • AutoMan API Reference
    • Papers
  • Press
  • Bugs / Source / Building
  • License
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  1. Getting Started

Installing Prerequisites

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Before you start, you must have a few things installed.

  1. (version 11+ recommended, but 1.8+ should work).

  2. (specifically, version 2.12; Scala 2.13 is not yet supported). Note that on the Mac, .

  3. †.

    Note that on the Mac, .

Download AutoMan

The easiest way to install AutoMan is to manage your application's build using sbt by creating a build.sbt file. This tutorial will explain how to do that, step-by-step. But if you already know how to use sbt, just add the following dependency to your libraryDependencies section.

"org.automanlang" %% "automan" % "1.4.2"

sbt will download an AutoMan JAR and store it locally on your machine, along with all of AutoMan's dependencies.

† . The sbt authors , so... fair game.

Download and install Java
Download and install Scala
the easiest way to install Scala is by using Homebrew
Download and install sbt
the easiest way to install sbt is by using Homebrew
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insist "sbt" does not stand for "Scala build tool"