Adapting From General to Scripting

Hey all! This is only my second post here so apologies if I'm not in the right place or anything of such (be gentle).

Anyways, onto the issue! For a long time I've been messing around with programming, and recently sat down and really started learning C#. I love it, and I know a decent amount (not enough to call myself a programmer, but enough to not sound like a complete idiot... I hope... Probably... Alright, maybe not. But that's not the point! What are you looking at, get back to the rest of the post! The nerve of some readers). However, I began to script in Unity and my jaw dropped so low I could have played soccer with it. I enjoy programming and would love to learn how to script in Unity, but I'm so lost that I can't find a place to begin. Any tutorials that I find are so basic that I know 99% of the information in them, but the others are JUST above-my-head-enough to where I have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, and the ones that may have been able to help me (i.e. tutorials that present in a way that I'm able to learn in) just explain how to do something, not WHY we put that line there, or why we use that kind of variable, or what that second variable we're passing in actually does. Maybe it's just my flea-sized attention span (I really don't mind learning something, but I'm at the point where I know just enough to make any beginner tutorial that would probably help me so incredibly boring to watch that by the first 2 minutes I'm ready to pull my hair out). Maybe I've been learning it wrong. I'm not sure. What I do know, is that I would REALLY like to do this, but I'm very, very afraid that I'll lose interest. Please don't mistake this as a "Oh he's just looking for the 'easy' route", I know this will take time and will be frustrating at some points along the way, but at the same time I know for a fact that it shouldn't be nearly impossible to learn. Perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong place? I have yet to find a clear tutorial series or a good documentation section that will actually teach me why we're putting code where we are and what it does and why it does it, but I've found all too many that will teach me "if you want to do this, plop these 70 lines of code into a script and go for it". It doesn't really help me adapt the code for my own projects, it helps me make one or two specific instances of projects.

 

If you look at the teaching and learning part of the forums there are quite a few tutorials where people actually go through the code.

(Self plug)
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-turret-tutorial.341866/#post-2692570

It may be a good idea to start trying to make a simple game and when you get stuck you can ask here for help.

 

Thanks very much! I just took a look through the beginning part of the Scripting manual... Understood about 70% or so. I can probably figure out how to get startedish. Expect many, many questions though haha.