Absolute C# Newcomer - Looking for a starting point

[kaboonus]

Hello @Bulldog welcome here .

@Bulldog

I’m an absolute newcomer, to both botting and C#

There is no problem with that, everybody start from 0, even if they forgot that

@Bulldog

After scouring the forums, it seems most advice is to start with an already developed Sanderling bot, and customize it bit by bit there.

indeed, the easier way is to take a bot , try to make him work for you and in time you continue to modify him.

@Bulldog

However, I am more in this for the education experience, outside of just botting in my game of choice.

ok ok but let’s go at work:
here is a newbie guide: How to Automate Anything in EVE Online
if you have troubles to use Sanderling you can take a look here:
Explanation for dumb peeps as meself - #8 by kaboonus
the main guide is here: GitHub - Arcitectus/Sanderling: APIs and libraries to read information directly from the EVE Online game client.

@Bulldog

as these are commands that would need to be frequently run,not just performed in a linear sequence,

here I have something to say : any program run linear. but from time to time you say him: ok , now I wanna you check this again. he will check and get back at line. Anyway, there are stuffs you cannot solve them so easy.

@Bulldog

I am , however, looking for general tips of how I can go about it .

having the guide from above, and taking into account you wanna do ratting, i suggest you use
this one

MARVEL script, ratting at a new level

Start ratting with an vni, take the loot with mtu, change in salvage ship (I use Gnosis, is more agile than noctis), take the salvage; if your mtu is killed, then you continue to rat and take the salvage with drones; if your salvage drones are killed, then you continue to ratting until you lose all drones from item hangar/ship/downtime;) -delete 'new System.Media.SoundPlayer lines; I keep them because I use sounds( and so we have same filesize) +automatic change between salvage ship (to use …

and you have a guide comprehensible ( i hope) made for my scripts:

Kaboonus scripts guide ( wiki page so do not respond in this one)

First of all, you have to load from web the script from git, using the Saderling interface: [load] after the script is loaded, you open dev environement: [dev%20tools] you make all changes ( it follows in this wiki) select the text: [unit1] make changes [unit2] check if is green [green] you save [save] and at the end of filename you add .cs [cs] next time you load the script from file: [load] Now all changes are like that: if a value is mentionned in thousands, keep the pro…

so what you change on script?
Foresaken Rally Point from forsaken hub (line 44)
from “Within 30 km” to “Within 0 m” at line 34
Select largest rat ship in overview, orbit @15km largest or not, you orbit arround rats. but, if you want to have rats ordered by class, then you have to contact @pikacuq, he will offer you his solution and work
back on script

@Bulldog

Add signature to ignore list, in case blue is already on site, in prep for next site warp

is already do that and the rest of your conditions.
more than that, it can use salvage drones or mtu.
and all the rest of changes you have my wiki guide