Teaching to script?

[rayanaga]

Frankly, I taught a few people some basic scripting before, but they kinda really didn't get it at all. Most of the people I taught didn't have any programming experience beforehand and were totally new to the concept. I have a few questions to ask the Scripters whoever tried to teach new people how to script in soldat.

A) Do you think teaching them basics in free pascal would help a lot more then starting them right on scripting in ScriptCore?

B) Do you think having them attempt to tweak existing scripts and learn from trial-and-error would be a logical choice?

C) What are your general methods of teaching people to script?

Thanks in advance.

[danmer]

it's not possible to teach unless one is willing to learn. Trust me, it's useless in most of the cases, no matter how hard you try. If they really want to learn it, they'll get there eventually (like most of the people here did)

[croat1gamer]

And to add at dnmr's post, i would use a mixture of A and B.
Give them scriptcore, a tutorial and later an advanced tutorial to pascal and already existing scripts to try to modify them.
And try to see if they learned any other programing languages, as it can help, but also do the opposite.

Least that is how i learned to make scripts (more/less), and the guy who is teaching, he should be more like an spectator which will just explain the basis of what to do and sometimes explain what is the problem in the syntax.

[freestyler]

I would go with B. Simply looking at the script, reading it a few times and testing what does it do in game gives you a bit of understanding basic syntax and you start to "think" as compilator.

But yeah, unless someone really wants to learn, you can't do anything to teach them.

[croat1gamer]

Except explaining them what means what.