Class 1 - Introduction

• course overview
• programming language concepts
• MEL's role in Maya

Classes 2 & 3 - MEL syntax and semantics

• program flow
• keywords
• data types
• operators
• commands, attributes
• functions
• writing, saving, running MEL scripts

Class 4 - Scripts

• expressions
• modeling
• animation
• rendering

Class 5 - More scripts

• UI
• dynamics
• project mgmt.
• misc/utilities
• wrapup