Got hacked. for 2.5b. Ex teacher out of work due to injury. Need a stimulating challenge so I want to learn to script. HELP

[Ciaor]

Just general help. Where do I even start. How quickly can I learn. I have a BSC and masters, and am a qualified teacher so I pick things up quickly. I don't really want to play rs anymore after I lost 2.5B bank. So I want to turn to the dark side. 

 

Am I just fantacizing her or can someone with no programming history learn to script?

 

I am VERY competitive when it comes to education and learning, and I really will get stuck into this. As I said, I'm out of work due to breaking my leg and am just so bored. I cant be bothered to play rs much now due to losing my bank, so want to script for as many hours a day as I used to play rs and really get stuck in to this.

 

Opinions please? General help.

 

I was thinking of green dragon bot to start with as ive noticed that nobody seems to bot them anymore

 

 

[Gunman]

3 hours ago, Ciaor said:

Am I just fantacizing her or can someone with no programming history learn to script?

Of course, you can. You're better off learning the fundamentals of Java first.
 
 Up to Java Arrays/OOP 1 should be enough to start scripting. But the more complex script you're making, the more Java you should learn to make it easier and cleaner. You may even find making some random simple Java apps to be fun as well. You don't need to stick with scripting necessarily
https://www.programiz.com/java-programming

Probably the best scripting tutorial and where almost everyone starts
https://osbot.org/forum/topic/115124-explvs-scripting-101/

 

[ExtraBotz]

If you study hard you can learn the fundamentals of Java within 3 - 6 months. I'd also recommend studying algorithms and data structures for efficiency. You will be using a very high level language so the practical application of algorithms and data structures might not be there, but understanding them and how they work will make you a better script writer than any how to guide out there.

Once you understand the basics of data and data types it's just a matter of figuring out the logic to move the data around and form it into what you need from it. The OSBot API makes that very easy as you'll have access to practically everything in the game with minimal code.

All programming languages have one commonality and that is that they're used to move data. Understand the data and the basic logic of a programming language and then it becomes a matter of learning the syntax. Without data a computer/program is useless and has nothing to process.

[Dbuffed]

Sorry to hear you're injured.

Happens to the best of us, best of luck.