Basic LSL

There's been ton of the various tutorials and such about LSL, so not sure if this would be of use for anyone... but since a couple of folks said that this might be fun, here it goes. I will take an assumption that the reader is not very well versed in coding, so it is also an opportunity for me to exercise my explanation skills - and to start really really basic. So if this is boring for you - I will try to put some more spicy stuff inbetween :)

Let's take a practical approach - pushing random buttons and seeing what happens :)

Create a cube, and hit the "New Script" within the "Content" tab.

As a result we get "New Script" which looks like this:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!");
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        llSay(0, "Touched.");
    }
}

Now, what what here, and why so many curly braces ?

if you look closer, you will see that all of this seems to be similar - a series of nested structures.

And at highlevel it looks like this:

some-name(maybe brackets and some more brackets)
{
some-inside-stuff
}

This kind of logic is very frequently used in computer science - and not only.
When you have tons of garbage that you do not want to see spreading around the house, you take a bag, put all the garbage in - and put the label "garbage". And you know that it contains various garbage.

Same in the computer science - the concept of packing multiple things and then referring to them by a single name allows to abstract away "the garbage" so that you can operate at a higher level of abstraction.