Pay Per Script

I’ve never hired a coder before. What’s the typical contractual scenario ? Pros and Cons ?

Rather than suggesting some ideas, I was wondering if I could just pay per script.

Learning Lua is a motivating start to learning another language, but its completely different than having something that works as imagined now.

Most of the ideas I’m putting to test are done on a simple text editor, when it arrives at a stage where I just copy and paste, then I figure the next step is to automate it.

what are your ideas.
post them and if people want to make them they will.