I don't think seeing examples is quite so bad... but who knows? Each person is different, some are visual learners. I taught myself 90% of scripting... I had some this.vars and a little bit of strings and I took off.
www.projectshifter.com is what I'm working on, it's got this.vars and strings and player attribs in it, you may find it useful. Let me know what you think
---Shifter