[SpasticCaveman]

I need to know where to start, what's the easiest to learn, whats the basics, I am completely numb to Pawn, I've coded little bits of LUA and Java but mainly addons for game servers.

[Divergent]

I'd never touched a single thing of code in my life, but I started learning just by looking through a gamemode for a server I played on and trying to understand how things work. I think that this benefited me in the long run because rather than just memorizing the syntax etc. I actually understood it. That will most likely take you much more time then necessary though. I'd say look through the SAMP scripting wiki and check out some of the functions etc. If you've coded Java before it shouldn't be hard though, just a few changes in syntax and different functions.

[iKyle]

Each scripter has their own way of doing things. Some are most simpler and some are more complex. It really depends on how you would like to have your files organized. There is also levels of efficiency, meaning if you prefer to have your codes all over, interchanging it may run slower. Obviously, if you are using a SQL script, it runs faster as the SQL Database does most of the work, saving memory for the other parts to run. Scripting doesn't really have any guides, the best way is to learn to tweak small code(s) and you soon will learn within a couple months the basics of PAWNO.