I've been wondering the same thing myself lately. I've got limited program coding knowledge but i've built websites essentially from scratch and worked with macro's in excel etc a fair bit now. Of late I've wondered if I should/could create something that automates my bet placement and race/form recording for me so it could even run while I'm not home.

I understand its a pretty monumental task but it would be pretty rewarding and potentially time saving once it was in place.

I think the biggest issues is not really having any idea where to start. I'm pretty good at picking things up once I have some initial direction or examples to work with.