The best way to learn scripting quickly?

[PurpleMetro]

I suck at scripting and I want to know the best way to learn scripting on blockland quickly. And if you voted for Self Taught, can you explain how you taught yourself scripting? Dosen't make sense to me.

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[indyjones]

It takes a while to learn programming (with the exception of HTML)

[phflack]

It takes a while to learn programming (with the exception of HTML)

i disagree, it's all logic
then again, it depends on which type of scripts that purple would want to make

[PurpleMetro]

i disagree, it's all logic
then again, it depends on which type of scripts that purple would want to make

I just want to make my own modding scripts. Modeling is just not my thing for blockland.

[indyjones]

i disagree, it's all logic
then again, it depends on which type of scripts that purple would want to make

Scripting is logic when you plan on forgetting it later the same day.

[Katadeus]

Scripting all makes sense, but the most important part is getting to understand every single bit of it. If you're modifying something and you don't understand a part of it, you should look at the whole script first, and try to understand it all. Just think about all of it.

I learned it mostly by looking at scripts, and I also looked at a couple of tutorials by Bloxland on youtube. Those were actually quite useful.

Anyway, once you've been looking through scripts, tweaking them and such, you need to remember to put them back to normal, or else I believe it seriously messes with the people coming to your server.

My first scripting project failed horribly. I'll revisit it later, no doubt, but I still learned a lot while working on it. Now I understand most of the grammar, as you could call it, necessary as well. There are still things that I do not understand, but I generally have a good bit of knowledge about scripting.

I do not know how to overwrite functions yet, which is probably important, but at the moment I can't research it, really. The computer I'm working with is absolutely idiotic in every way.

[PurpleMetro]

Scripting all makes sense, but the most important part is getting to understand every single bit of it. If you're modifying something and you don't understand a part of it, you should look at the whole script first, and try to understand it all. Just think about all of it.

I learned it mostly by looking at scripts, and I also looked at a couple of tutorials by Bloxland on youtube. Those were actually quite useful.

Anyway, once you've been looking through scripts, tweaking them and such, you need to remember to put them back to normal, or else I believe it seriously messes with the people coming to your server.

My first scripting project failed horribly. I'll revisit it later, no doubt, but I still learned a lot while working on it. Now I understand most of the grammar, as you could call it, necessary as well. There are still things that I do not understand, but I generally have a good bit of knowledge about scripting.

I do not know how to overwrite functions yet, which is probably important, but at the moment I can't research it, really. The computer I'm working with is absolutely idiotic in every way.

Ok. I will start my first scripting project by messing with a player type.

[Muddy Waters]

I gradually learned bit-by-bit by loving with some of my add-ons.  I made some cool stuff although, like my Monster Bengs.  Of course, I can't model worth stuff. 
But, I have also learned various things by comparing certain scripts, so that might help you as well.

[Katadeus]

The packaging of the playertype is important, too, though.
Make sure you have the following.
Namecheck.txt-the ONLY thing that should be in it is the full name of your playertype, in the format Player_[namehere].
Description.txt-this is necessary, but you can put anything you want in it. Most of the time, people make it pretty formal.
Server.cs-copy another server.cs file to your folder to make it cs, and then change the file it executes from whatever playertype you stole it from, you stealing no-good dirty rotten pig stealing wiper of other peoples' bottoms, to your playertype. I think that's what's in it.
Then, you need another .cs file, so copy and paste again, only to get the file ending, clear everything in it, open up another playertype's other .cs file, and read it and make sure you understand it. Then, you copy everything that is necessary to copy manually, so that you can get it under your fingers, and hopefully eventually will not have to do this. Then, all there is to do is change values, like firstpersononly, jumpforce, runforce, etc.

Then, if you want to release it, you don't.
Wait until later to do that.
You may discover the fact that it is crap in the meantime.
This is a good thing.