How can I create my own deck programmatically? In other words, if I decide to make my own multiplication table deck, I want to do it with for loops rather than typing all 100 multiplication facts into Anki itself. I was unable to answer this question myself with a bit of searching, although it looks like .anki files are SQLite databases, so I could reverse-engineer it.

(Your post, by the way, did provoke me into getting around to installing Anki, even though I run Linux not a Mac.)

Edit: I just noticed that "File" > "Import" has a "Text separated by tabs or semicolons" setting that will probably do the trick.

Edit 2: The Anki documentation gives the details of how the imported file should be formatted.