Understanding scripting

[Pawel]

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I hope it would help, though if anything is not clear for you, don’t hesitate to ask I’ve also asked many times - how to write scripts, how to develop efficiently, etc, but that kind of questions is really hard to answer, because it’s way too generic, so the answers are generic too, unfortunately The best I can advise is to just practice