Great beginner's guide to AppleScript

Thanks for the shout out! My follow-up article on advance AppleScript techniques is now up here:
http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/applescript/advanced-applescript-techniques/

No, no, no. This tutorial lost me at the first paragraph.

Here's what I want:

Show me a cool thing that a script can do and tell me how to build THAT, step by step, explaining why this does this and that does that.

I'm the type of guy who likes to tinker and deconstruct things as a method of learning, and tutorials that explain to me the concept behind the tools rather than telling me how to use them is the most boring way of describing things.

Great beginner's article, there are a lot of communities online for scripting, but few decent resources for diving head-first into AppleScript.

I recently started working in AppleScript again (for FileMaker plugins) and I can't imagine why it isn't more popular. It's great for business, if you take the time to know what you're doing (hint: turn on "access for assistive devices", learn some of the language, and make System Events be your evil minion of unwarranted productivity!).

Brilliant! That's exactly the kind of thing I've missed in wanting to get started. Thanks for passing it along.