How do I make a score system

[gritty lotus]

Im very new to lua code and I want to start from the basis of it. Im trying to understand the code of other's people by code analysis, yet I still dont understand it.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)

local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = player

local coins = Instance.new("NumberValue")
coins.Name = "Coins"
coins.Parent = leaderstats

end)

Can you please explain to me how this works, because I simply dont understand the majority of it

[golden matrix]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/players/leaderboards

leaderstats lets you display values on the roblox leaderboard

[round marten]

basically it detects when the player is added or joins the game in the first line

creates a folder and names it "leaderstats" then puts it inside player in the next 3 lines

then in the next 3 lines creates a numbervalue which can store number and names it "Coins" then puts it in leaderstats or the folder it created earlier

[gritty lotus]

Thank you for that, your explanation is really great but for some reason Instance.New is confusing for me, what does that thing mainly do?

[radiant elk]

creates new instances, just like if you were to add them into the explorer yourself like putting a part in workspace, except it's done with code which is automated and much faster than you could ever do by hand 👍

[gritty lotus]

Ohhh ok, thank you for explaining that to me

[radiant elk]

np, and do pay notice to that fact - anything you can do manually in the explorer, like if you press play then start messing about with things like changing your walkspeed to be very high so you run fast, code can do that too. it's like recording a bunch of manual steps you've made into the script, and the script will repeat those steps very fast.

[gritty lotus]

Thats pretty useful information, Ill take that into my coding, thank you so much again