Scripting Tutorials

Natalia inadvertently reminds me that I've been very remiss! Since the way Second Life does building is very different from the 3D modeling I'm used to, I've been posting neat little tricks that I find while playing around with prims. But the scripting language is so similar to other programming that I don't even think about it!

So I'm starting a series of scripting tutorials, in hopes that I can make Linden Scripting Language make sense to someone who's never written a computer program before.

Now, I don't know how well I'll be able to put things in layman's terms — it can be hard, when you've been doing something for a long time, to break the concepts down clearly and concisely — so I hope (if you read them) that you'll be kind enough to give me some feedback on what I could make clearer, whether I should cover less information per post, or more information, or try to phrase things in a different way, or if I'm even coherent...

I've put links to the tutorial posts up on the sidebar (I'm back-dating them to before when I started this blog, so that they'll all appear together and they won't clutter up my regular posts, and also putting them in reverse chronological order so that part 1 will appear before part 2 when you read through the archives). So far I've written two parts; part 1 is just a tour through the default script which gets created when you click on the "New Script..." button, and part 2 talks about functions and data types.