Animation / scripting for dummies?

hi there 
i would like to do a small and very simple animation of the octane sun - and found and downloaded the daylight-animation.lua.
but now what? i simply can't figure out how to get started?
is there a guide for noobs?
thanks
jorgensen

i would like to do a small and very simple animation of the octane sun - and found and downloaded the daylight-animation.lua.
but now what? i simply can't figure out how to get started?
is there a guide for noobs?

thanks
jorgensen