i wanna learn it to make a game but i dont really know much about it at all and im not sure where to start at all
#Does anyone have any pointers or directions to go to for learning lua?
stone prawn
not sure if its against the rules to post this since i asked for pointers but i didnt ask for someone to make a game i might be good
winter urchin
don't think of it like learning a language, think of it like learning how to program
and don't focus on trying to make a game. Focus on expanding your skills.
stone prawn
Where would i start tho?
Like is their anything i should watch, websites to visit
Just to help me get started on the overall learning aspect
winter urchin
Like is their anything i should watch, websites to visit
don't just consume, actually try to understand what's happening, what the syntax is doing
really there's easy "how to learn" route, everyone's different
how i learned to program was completely different from how the people I was trying to learn from said was how they learned
stone prawn
don't just consume, actually try to understand what's happening, what the syntax...
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stone prawn
I've tried to learn it before but when i tried i was just watching videos and never was really able to understand the basic stuff
winter urchin
yeah, that's the trap a lot of people get stuck in
stone prawn
i couldnt even tell you how to make a gui
winter urchin
understanding what 3 simple lines are doing is infinitely better than memorizing what 20 lines are doing, start there
i'll try to get you started
what do you think this does?
local x = 10
i think thats one of the size thingys
its been AWHILE since i tried to learn so im basically starting from scratch all over again
winter urchin
alright
what it really does is it creates a variable (pretty much the same thing as variables in math) and sets its value to 10
so it's variable declaration
which is a standard feature across literally every single popular programming language
so you're not really just learning lua when learning programming
stone prawn
oh your learning
multiple
because i know theirs variables, conditions, loops, functions
but thats about
it really
stone prawn
i couldnt tell you what they look like but im aware a lot of things require it
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