kornphlake:
I'm a newbie myself, I understand it is frustrating coming to the forum for assistance and being told that you need to read a tutorial and figure it out. If you understood the tutorial you wouldn't have asked the question (a reasonable assumption.)
Instead of telling you what you already know that you don't understand, I thought I'd learn with you and maybe help you get to the final solution a little quicker.
So you think it is better to give the answer to someone than to tell them where they can find the info and learn on their own?!
If you stick around for a while in the forum, you will notice that most people will ask before they try to learn on their own. And this thread is a great example. There are probably HUNDREDS of threads in this forum alone explaining how millis() works, telling people where they can find more information about it and even some code examples and solutions to problems.
I think reading (watching,...), understanding, and then writing your own code has much better results (maybe not so immediate, but if you want no work at all just buy a ready made product! 
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