Review

In this chapter, I tried to illustrate some of the different components of a good script. You've seen what functions, statements, and subroutines look like, how a main script ties them all together, and how comments and documentation make them easier to read and maintain in the future. Keep all these new concepts in mind as you move through the rest of the book. Try to spot intrinsic functions and custom ones, and watch for comment lines and other types of code documentation. Try to use these standards in your own scripts, and you'll find yourself becoming more efficient and more capable very quickly.

COMING UP

You're almost ready to start learning VBScript, but you need to learn how to design your scripts first. In the next chapter, I'll show you my simple methodology for designing scripts that will let you write powerful administrative scripts without becoming a career programmer.