Proposal for some standard scripting classes.

Here is a proposal for some basic LSL scripting classes that I used to teach at the USL campus awhile back. I have corresponding class materials (finished scripts, etc) that I will post along with the scripting class curriculum at the USL Library in Grignano.

Class Title: LSL Scripting 101
Length: 1 hour (45 minutes instruction, 10 minutes question, 5 minutes
slack)
Description: Curious about bring things to life in SL through scripting?
Clueless about how to get started? Then this is the class for you! Learn
some introductory information about LSL scripting and get your hand's wet
with some sample scripts. We'll cover the LSL script editor, how you can go
about learning scripting, and we'll go over some very basic scripts for
non-programmers.
Student Goals:
1. Learn about the LSL Script Editor
2. Identify the location of scripting resources (LSL Wiki, SL Scripting
Forums, various inworld repositories of scripts)
3. Practice dragging and dropping stock scripts to a prim, observing the

Class Title: LSL Scripting 102
Length: 1 hour (45 minutes instruction, 10 minutes question, 5 minutes
slack)
Description: Tried your hands with scripting in SL, and want to learn more?
This class will cover some intermediate to advanced topics in LSL scripting
such as Linked Messages, Listens, Timers, Global vs. Local Variables, IF
Statements, and Events.
Student Goals:
1. Understand communications between scripts in the same object.
2. Understand script listens and variables.
3. Understand events (e.g. the timer and listen events).

Class Title: LSL Scripting 103
Length: 1 hour+ (45-55 minutes instruction, 10 minutes question, 5 minutes
slack)
Description: Found scripting to be your thing in SL and want even more
advanced information? This class will cover advanced topics in LSL
scripting such as Sending and Receiving Email, Reading Notecards (dataserver
event), Changed Event, FOR loops, and Asynchronous Code.
Student Goals: .
1. Understand asynchronous code in scripts. (i.e. email and notecard
reading)
2. Understand FOR loops.
3. Understand available I/O options between non-linked prims (primarily
inter-sim communication).
Note: this class will involve the dissection of a notecard distribution
and/or simple TV network system.

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I would love to take classes on scripting as you proposed. Im all new to forums so not real sure how this works. Will check again later. Thanks!

When do your scripting classes happen?

I would take these classes

I would too.

As this thread is not exactly new I'm going to suggest to everyone that if they are interested in scripting classes that I have seen several on the events callendar as of late.

If you do not know how to work the events callendar to find classes it's pretty simple.

In world hit the find button and then on the window that pops up hit the events tab. There is a pull down menu near the top (middle-ish right? i'm not in game so I don't remember how far right it is) that will let you change the category. Change the category to education and it will filter it down to the classes.

I have noticed several new scripting classes popping up and know first hand *giggles* that more are in the works.

So scripting hungery students just keep your eyes on the events callendar and i'm sure you'll find a good class!

sounds great! sign me up too!

*makes note to look more often at the dates these are posted*

I used to teach these classes in Second Life, but can't now for various reasons. The classes were standardized, and you can pickup copies of the examples used in each class at my script shop in Grignano. Other people in SL have developed their own 3-4 course lecture series on basic scripting as well, and some actively teach them whereas some are self-paced.

Uh I dont know if anyone ever comes to these forums now, since its been a few months, but I would like to take these classes, I am very interested in making my own objects now, without the help of my *very* expensive scripting friend. So IM me Hank if these classes are still available! PS: Are they free admission?

You might keep an eye on TeaZer's schedule, Digital. I've seen quite a few Scripting 101 and Scripting 201 classes lately, and I even saw a 202 pop up today. That could be a great place for you to start!

Alternately, of course, there's always the wiki and a boatload of example code, some of which is actually commented to help you understand it.

I have the feeling that I have already posted that once... but still
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At the start of my SL'ing I sorta knew scripters had an edge. They knew how to slap things down in digital esperanto to be able to be in the lead in selling poses, vehicles, security devices..and the individual scripts themselves. They can bring down whole sims and more. What more of an edge could you get?

But, I'm on the east coast...a technophobe's paradise, not on the hacker's haven west coast. So many classes have centered around west coast times. Can't stay up 'til 11pm learning something that I intuitively think will be boring, and that has been boring in previous attempts to learn the basics. ( I mean how many times can you listen to 'hello avatar'?)

Beyond this, when I've talked to techie ppl, for the most part..hmm...they seem not to be too adept with languages other than digital to the extent that they know how to teach what they know with great effectiveness. I know they FEEL they are. But most ppl go away from these classes or from general explanations by Linden staff asking 'did you understand that, I didn't'. So, classes or scripting explanations, inclusive of their notecards, are construed as 'difficult' when they probably just need a good communicator in both spoken and digital language. I'd bet that's ONE of the reasons the classes have not been big hits as far as student staying-power is concerned, or that they are needed at all considering that the LSL wiki primer is and has been available for a long time.

Usually the third time the instructor or notecard leaves out an important step to a process or explanation, I'm out of there. The author or teach is probablya poet at scripting, ...but lacks in logical, well thought out communication in a spoken language.

But there's another, more important reason to run like a bat out of Hades when you feel you have a so-so teach at the podium or in IM (rl/sl). When you 'learn' something incorrectly the FIRST time, no matter how you correct that misconception/misunderstanding in the future, in a hurried moment..that FIRST bit of RNA/that first remembered method, way or name, will be sought out by your neurons...and you will make a mistake. It's called the 'primacy effect'. Not bad if you're concocting code for an online game. But, since there will be some basic, non-LSL programming info included in these classes, it could play havoc if you make mistakes in areas that aren't digital playgrounds.

All this aside, I hope there are some good teachers of scripting in SL. It'd be fun and interesting to know how to make some of the wonderful scripts here Good luck!