Alright, just starting out Scripting! ...Where do I start?

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Right now, I am in the tutorial hellhole - which is definitely not ideal. I want to learn Coding to pursue down the line, and want to start independant coding as soon as possible, however I have no clue how to do this without - well - tutorials! But at the same time without something to learn from, I then know nothing, so I can't do anything... Anybody able to help me on how to learn the basics of coding without a tutorial hellhole? 😅

[brittle peak]

step 1: read every page in this series https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/fundamentals/coding-1/coding-fundamentals
step 2: read every other page in the docs http://wiki.roblox.com
step 3: ???
step 4: congrats you're a scripter now

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https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-ishowspeed-ballon-d'or-ballon-d'or-shocked-ishowspeed-noway-gif-9357582452923318096

That was fast

will it actually

work?

[brittle peak]

yes

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alright

I'll try it out

praying it goes well

[brittle peak]

the key trick is to make stuff and get actual practice in, no tutorials needed, just come up with something and make it from what you learned.

oh and

it takes months to years.

[main sparrow]

fr

[brittle peak]

no one ever got pro at anything doing a 5 minute online course.

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I am aware of that

and

am willing to put in

all the time

and pursue it as a career

does learning Lua also help with other coding languages even if it doesn't use the same stuff?

like general knowleddge

[brittle peak]

yes learning any programming language will transfer to other languages

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alright

tysm

[hushed geyser]

Yep, u should try to like, when u got the basics, try to do the things that goes in ur mind, so u can understand more, and so u can learn better

Doing mini project or little things can really help, for example "lets try to make a timer" idk just do things with what u learnt

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Alright

ty

[worthy wave]

bro i was in that situation too, i just wanted to make some concepts that i liked in some games like voting system and started making those, once you start making something you get the hang of it and can do it again once u finish it but make sure you understand how you did it

[vocal geode]

Avoid ChatGPT aka the loser path

[atomic hornet]

I kind of disagree sometimes chatGPT is a 100 times more convenient then waiting for responses from others it just all depends on how you use it

[vocal geode]

I mean if you ask it questions and he answers with text it’s acceptable

But if you just generate code it’s time to give up game development

[vocal geode]

Sometimes it’s worth waiting for others response, especially in the dev forum since sometimes the documentation of Roblox might be unclear about some details and ChatGPT’s answer cannot go further than what he finds in the internet. That’s why somebody who can experiment by themselves will have an advantage over a robot gathering informations and throwing everything at once even though it’s faster.

[brittle peak]

you can only pick two: Cheap, Fast, Good. chatgpt is cheap and fast, so it's never going to be good. doing it yourself is cheap and good, but it wont ever be fast. paying someone to do it gives you fast and good, but it won't be cheap.

[atomic hornet]

I get this but if you are just starting out chatgpt will be perfectly fine especially if you use it for things like say building a roadmap you can follow to start off , help with your specific questions rather than having to wait just to get a very broad non useful answer, practice activities to reinforce the topics you already know the list goes on and on it all depends on how you utilize it If you are just using chatgpt to outright generate code for you or 100% trusting the information given then of course you're gonna run into issues