What is the best order in which to learn how to script?

I just was wondering if there was a specific order in which worked better to get the concepts down for scripting. In the books I know they start out with print and some of the basic concepts but when I go to look at some scripts that others have made it goes way over my head. If someone has an idea or a rough list of different things I can learn in scripting that will help me become better that would be nice. Without a guided tutorial it is a lot harder to know what to search for to learn when you don't know scripting in the first place.