Myself, I used reverse engineering with old mount and blade mods and got into banter and friendly chatting with some of the big modders of the time. I started off as a graphic designer for Rigale mod then after doing load screens for other Mods ect I got to know people and bugged the hell out of them. I found a mod called enlist from M&B and thought I'd give it a shot at porting it to Warband, I called it Freelancer, The mod wouldn't have gotten very far if it hadn't been for the community. There is you Key. This forum is full of hundreds of people, everyone has something to give. Great Community this one. So everyone else that has spoken is correct. Q&A thread is great, the forge in itself is awesome. I'm still learning and will continue to do so, welcome to an exclusive club.
1. Searching the code, learning to read basic code structures.
2. Very very basic code, ( codecombat.com would you believe has helped me allot lol)
3. Add ##notes to code to remind you of what things do or what the activates.. Quite frankly my first code to play with was dialogues and game menus
Have fun and don't forget Q&A and the Forge are your best friends... there's also a mod forge bible around here somewhere.
- Gothy