Suggestions for Newbie Scripter learning path?

I've read through the LSL wiki and I think it's great! I'm very grateful for all the authors contributions... Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute something in the future too.

Do any scripters out there have suggestions on what might be a good progression of scripts to tackle for a beginner (i.e. touch, sit target, door open, teleports, etc.) which enable them to get a firm grasp of the language and things to stay away from when you're first learning or which could cause problems when executed if you don't know what you're doing? I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.

For example, i've thought about doing something with llModifyLand using LAND_LEVEL because it's a pain getting my land flat. However, it's occured to me that this might have unintended consequences...

The first question to ask is always: What do you want to do?

Think something cool and hack at it until it works. The details are unimportant. When you are done, find something else. Post your questions on the forums, and answer the ones you can. One day you will begin to realize that you answer more questions than you ask.

Strangely, you will still mostly want to do things you don't have a clue how to do.

A friend and I tend to just bounce ideas back and forth between each other and then we go out and build them. Its alot of fun and shes turned out to be a great friend, we are planning on doing some projects together. Me personally am not an LSL wizard but i can figure it all out pretty easily, and i love to program in c++.

If you really have trouble think of something you saw somewhere else, and make it in SL. For example, my first script was a quotebot, like you see in mIRC.

~Talila

cool thanks for the advice.