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Originally Posted by ****** I'm not at all being sarcastic. You are right that coding things is a good way to learn - I agree. There are many parts of a mode to learn coding from, the bits that should be secure are not one of them. I said "the one part", meaning "possibly the only part", that you shouldn't do yourself. If you want to learn, code everything else from scratch and you will learn plenty. No other bit really matters if you get it wrong: Bug in your properties system? Some people loose their houses - who cares! Bug in your vehicles system? A car blows up - who cares? Bug in your user system? You leak people's passwords - everyone cares!

I wrote a lot of my first bits of code based on tutorials and ideas used in other scripts, but I'd understand the purpose of every single line.

I think it's pretty unlikely that passwords will be leaked due to a bug in the user system though, I don't think I've ever heard a problem caused by bad scripting happen like that. It's important to have a good idea of what you're doing before you do it when you start out, so it's very unlikely something like that could happen if the new scripter read and followed the tutorial.