User talk:Valorborn

I am absolutly confused about how this helpdesk works. I read through everything down to where the pending questions began. I'm not sure where this post will come up, or if it will even display to anyone but myself as it reads "editing user talk: valorborn" at the top of my screen.

I'm looking for advice. I want to create mods and learn how to use the hammer editor very proficiently but there is so much I don't understand. I'm wondering where a good starting point would be. Understand that I know next to nothing, as I'm not even sure how to make a post here. I went to the tutorial section but all of the tutorials I attempted to go through made no sense to me. The commands are something I don't understand. I am 100% willing to try anything or do whatever is necessary to learn. I'm just clueless as to where to start. I did try the 'create a mod' tutorial but it wanted me to open a c++ thing and i don't have one.

Aside from where to start I have another question. Should I learn C++? I bought a C++ book and I downloaded a compiler from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=272BE09D-40BB-49FD-9CB0-4BFA122FA91B&displayLang=en&oRef=http%3a%2f%2fmsdn.microsoft.com%2fvisualc%2fvctoolkit2003%2f

I plan on going through C++ but I'm not sure how necessary it is for modding.

Lastly if this post appears somewhere that is inappropriate for its contents then I apologize and if so can someone delete it or tell me so I can delete it. Any information that I recieve regarding help with the SDK will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Valorborn