I suck at scripting

[CarnivorousJelly]

Daktoa, not sure whether this'll be much help for the future, but I found scripting got a ton easier when I started taking programming courses (which are required for first year engineering). I still have the notes in a .rar file. It's all designed for people who have never even looked at programming before. Since angelscript (what hpl2 uses) is similar to C++, most of the stuff overlaps (except apparently arrays and vectors - but that's beyond the basics for hpl2).

If you want to practice that stuff and see it actually do things, Visual Studio 2010 is free and fairly easy to use (it's what the notes use as well). I was able to make simple guessing games and text adventures using that.