Looking to Begin Scripting

Hello MPGH, as you can see I have been on this website for quite some time, and during this time, I have just been using other peoples programs. Two days ago I was looking through the web when I read up on some programming stuff and I thought to myself, "This actually sounds like it would be a fun and new experience", so I had looked around a but more and stumbled upon some programming programs and one looked very interesting to me and that one was AutoIt v3. I really don't like searching through a lot of things to learn how to do stuff, because it is pretty tedious and I get discouraged by the time I find anything. That is where you guys come into play. I was hoping that you guys could help me learning how to program using AutoIt v3. The first thing I really want to learn on it is an AutoStrafer for Half-Life 2 games, and I thought of how to do it, but the best analogy I can think of is knowing how to speak a language but not how to write (which upon further thought isn't an analogy, this is literally what it is) that language. Thank you in advance for reading this and maybe even for helping me out. I hope that this will be my perfect opportunity for giving back to the community.

Hey @SDTL| Henson I don't quickly say this but it seems you are really on the right mindset to become a programmer. Programming can be really fun, but also be really boring and as you mentioned, discouraging. I think it's nice to see that you realize that about yourself and don't instantly want to go for one of the more complex languages (like c++). However, I think auo-it might be a bad start. You will learn instead of best-practices, worst-practices. It really is a bad learning curve in different directions.

I get you want to start easy and simple. So why don't you start with C# or Java? Heck even python isnt that bad. Obviously if you do want to learn auto-it in the end then who am I to say no. I don't specifically know about auto-it but creating a game mod does require certain knowledge of assembly and such. Which is quite complicated. If you specifically want to learn about those thing might be good to start off with something like cheat engine. To get a feel of how games are constructed. There are lovely tutorials on the internet to help you get the basics of memory and basic cheats for offline games in cheat engine (Stephen Chapman for example).

If you have other ideas in mind that make you excited, then go for that first. Making your own complete gamecheats is not a real beginner step.

I hope this answer satisfies you

Start with HTML.

I don't know if they are trolling but, don't listen to these guys. This language is mainly based for webdesign and has nothing in common with any other language due to the fact it's purely based for lay out.

No. IM not trolling. HTML is the easiest language to learn and you get to know coding. What does it bring if you learn c++ as example but never touched any coding language

Because HTML barely has anything to do with coding. It's a lay out based language. You cannot compare HTML to any pseudocode language and you will not gain much from HTML either. If as he said wants to start with an easy language either auto-it, python, java, c#. They are good ways to start. You can't even make a simple calculator in pure HTML because there is no functionality in it.

My second choice was actually Python, but I haven't even touched that yet. I also did learn a little of HTML but that was about 3 or 4 years back.

Does anybody know what I should start doing to learn Python and maybe a game that I can practice on?

I'm not much of a python expert, but as I said if you want to directly get into game cheats, learn how to make cheats in general. For example with cheat engine. Once you feel you got the jang of that, learn about python and how to manipulate/edit memory of an external process in python. That should give you a good start.

Even though AutoIT is easy to learn, and perfectly fit for faking human inputs. I suggest you start whit bhop and fast fire scripts.
I can see myself in you I also used to want to do to much to soon.
I've coded in autoIT for a solid 3+ years, so if you encounter any problems on the way, feel free to send me a PM.

There are also some pretty good youtube videos on making AutoIT bots and scripts. You can check those out aswell.

AutoIT has alot of documentation online, and _{unlike msdn} are well documented with good examples.
There are also a ton of UDF's (user defined functions(includes)) for just about anything you can imagine. (Although I would wait with these untill you can write a simple script in a minute.)

The reason why it stuck out is because it fakes human input so i think it would be harder to get VAC ban.
I will look through the videos on how to get started on it, thanks!

Unless you make it memory reading/writing you will not get vacced.
I've been using it for 3+ years and never gotten vacced.