The Odyssey Scripting Tutorials

Language Basics

I. Getting Up and Running

1. What is MBSL?

2. Installing a Server

II. Your First Script

1. The Code

2. How does that work?

III. Conditionals

1. If... Then Statements

2. If... Then... Else

3. Boolean Operators: And, Or

4. Select Case Statements

IV. Variables

1. Storing Data

2. Variable Types

3. Parameters

4. Type Conversion

V. Loops

1. For... Next Loops

2. While... Wend Loops

VI. Functions and Subroutines

1. Function and Sub

2. The Function Header

3. Value and Reference

4. RunScript

VII. Arrays

VIII. Goto and Exit (Tentative)

1. Labels and Goto

2. Exit Sub

3. Exit For

Infinity. Modulus (Tentative)

Extended Topics

Spells

Flags and INIs

Flags

INIs

User-Defined Types

Advanced Topics

Operators: Precedence and Associativity

Boolean Operators Revisited

Binary and Data Encoding

Base 2 Numbering

Binary Conversion

Longs and Strings in Machine Language

Other Bases

Sorting and Analysis of Algorithms

Selection Sort

Insertion Sort

Data Structures

Stacks

Queues

Depth-First Search

Uses

The Concept

The Code

The Unknown

Classes

Introduction to Classes

Features of Classes

Using Classes

Operator Overloading

What is Operator Overloading?

How to Overload Operators

MBSCIDE

Appendices

Appendix I. Glossary

Appendix II. Function Reference

Appendix III. Scripting Events

Appendix IV. Operator Reference

Appendix V. Command Template

Throughout these tutorials, the following code coloring conventions will be used:

Symbols in Black
Keywords in Blue
Functions in Red
Variables in Green
Literals in Purple
Comments in Orange

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