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+Loops, Functions and if statements
+===========================
+
+The vast majority of GNUT modding within northstar will be done through functions, so understanding the formatting of functions can be somewhat important
+
+Declaring Functions
+--------------------
+Functions in squirrel are first defined by stating both the **output** followed by the keyword **function**, for example if you wanted to define a function that returns TRUE or FALSE you would:
+
+```cpp
+bool function ReturnTrueOrFalse()
+```
+
+But what if I want my function not to give stuff, but to DO stuff? for that you can define your function as `void`, this indicated that your function does not return anything. for example:
+
+```cpp
+void function ThisDoesStuff()
+```
+
+If statements
+---------------
+If statements use a similar style to most programming languages and will execute their asigned code if the test returns the boolean value true, it is worth remembering that unlike some languages the interger 1 is NOT considered equal to the boolean true, true is also always expressed in lowercase when used by a bool function. if i wanted to have something occur if, and only if, our previous `ReturnTrueOrFalse` function returned true, then you can use:
+
+```cpp
+if(ReturnTrueOrFalse())
+```
+
+If statements are also functions however, and can be used to determine true or false on their own when provided the == (equal to?) != (not equal to) < (less than) or >(greater than) symbols, if I wanted to simulte rolling a dice and only execute code on a 5 then i could instead:
+
+```cpp
+if(RandomInt(5)+1 == 5)
+```
+
+
+Loops
+------
+Loops fall into a few categories but for our purposes we will be only using `foreach` and `while`. `foreach` loops are given a data set, such as a list, and will repeat their asigned script for each entry on that list.
+```cpp
+array<interger> someinformation = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
+foreach( interger information in someinformation)
+```
+while a `foreach` loop will occur only as many times as the length of the list. a `while` loop functions more like an `if` statement, repeating itself endlessly until the test is no longer true
+```cpp
+while(ReturnTrueOrFalse)
+```
+This script will repeat endlessly until `ReturnTrueOrFalse` returns false
+
+Formatting of actions
+-------------------
+So great, we can loop and check things, but what can we do with this information? Squirrel uses {} to denote the contense of a series of actions caused by such a statement, however single-line scripts can be used without these, and will just be assumed.
+
+For example, lets make our ReturnTrueOrFalse function, that randomly picks either true or false, first:
+```cpp
+bool function ReturnTrueOrFalse()
+  return(RandomInt(1) == 1)
+```
+As this is a 1 line function it can be executed without needing any {}, but for a longer function we might need one, now lets make a more complicated function that will use the previous script to determine true or false, then each time it returns true it will print each number in the `someinformation` array
+```cpp
+array<interger> someinformation = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
+void ThisDoesStuff(){
+  while(ReturnTrueOrFalse()){
+    foreach( interger information in someinformation){
+      print(information)
+    }
+  }
+}
+```