How's your scripting skills

I'm curious- how good is everyone with LSL scripting?

(I'm asking here as oppossed to the scripting forum because I want the poll to include casual and non-scripters who may not visit that forum.)

Beginner level. I have to rely on the LSL Wiki, and mostly have made very simple little things for my own use. Probably will dabble in it more, but it's just a matter of taking the time to do so (I'm trying to learn PHP as well, so when I'm in SL, I need a break, and scripting isn't exactly my top priority these days, hehe).

I fall somewhere between "In Between" and "Advanced".

I'm to the point where I'm doing some fairly complex things, or I can if I put my mind to it. I don't need to see references to everything, just when I'm doing something wildly outside the scope of things I've done before. Starting with a blank script editor, I can create an entire complex script (A vehicle script, for example), with only occasional references to the wiki to check the syntax of a function. I can debug the code of those a step below me, and often serve as a "First stop" for friends before they try to bug more advanced coders.

But I still make newbish mistakes and often do things in a roundabout or odd way by the standards of my 'true' coder friends. I'm also not a coder by trade, and many of the higher concepts of programing still elude me totaly, or at best I have learned how to do them only by rote... I don't understand what I'm doing or why it works and am prone to making mistakes if I try to deviate outside of my boundries.

I can look at the code of a scripter far more advanced than myself and generaly understand it, either to the point I can then duplicate it on my own without simply copy-pasting it to serve my needs, or at least the point that I can understand what it is that is beyond my abilities and admire the scripter for it.

But I fall down on advanced math and related forms of scripting, as much because I have no mind for math as because I'm innept at scripting.

I put myself down as Advanced, and would probably have voted "Expert" except that there are a few things in LSL I have't really tried yet, so would bumble and stumble if I tried to do them well. For example, I've never scripted a weapon.

But there ain't nothin' I couldn't do given enough time, enough coffee, and enough weed!

- Ace

i voted middle of the road. i've never played with lsl like a language. i've only used it to hack out things i needed at the time. i'm learning a lot now for a project after just figuring out, i mean really getting a handle on, particles for a previous project.

ha! Glad I'm not the only one that likes to script high.

H O P E L E S S

Oh, Ingrid, that's not true! You're better than you give credit here!

As for me, I've figured out some things, and for that I consider myself a little above beginner. Then there are some things that totally baffle me, and I feel worse than newbe.

As for the use of the Wiki, I need it all the time. I use it to refresh myself of the syntax of a command. I also re-use old code to remind myself of the things I have learned. I think I could give a class to some people, but would have to sit in on other classes when the going gets rough!

Even though I have been doing some kind of scripting for many years, LSL has a few things in it that still send shivers up my spine! I hang out in the Scripting Tips forum, and I bet I learn something every day!

I crashed Hawthorne trying to make a carnival funhouse. Scripting and Aimee don't get along.

-aimee

Well, my vote goes for inbetween. I'm still relatively new to SL (only 3 months ) and haven't messed with LSL a whole lot yet.

I'm a quick learner and have plenty of experience with other programming languages. I've always had to use references, however. I guess mostly because I don't stick with any one long enough to memorize anything.

I put I don't script because...I DON"T I do like to build tho

Aww, you didn't have an option for 'Hack'. Not as in, 1337 h4xx0r, but more like someone who hacks at their script with an axe until it does more or less what they want.

I guess I'll have to say "In-Between" then.