How did you learn to code?

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Hello there, I’m Ted,

I see quite a few of you are experienced scripters and I want to ask you all a general question.

How did you learn to code?

I feel like some of the resources around like Codecademy or YouTube help a bit but it doesn’t teach me some of the things I want to do.

I’m just impressed by some of your skills on this forum and if you have any resources, etc then feel free to comment them below!

Thanks,
Ted

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The youtube tutorials are good for the basics and if something isnt explained, dont search it on youtube. Search it on the Devforum, its way better explained there.

Thats how i learned coding and i hope it helps you and more people too!

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I’ve been scripting for around 8 years now.

I learnt off of three major things:

  1. I wouldn’t just blatantly use free models; I would inspect the code of them, and that’s if they had scripts — you should generally avoid free models with scripts because they may have viruses, but there are many different ways to check, which you can find here — but Luau, in comparison to most other coding languages like C++, is pretty readable if you get what I mean. You can see the code and a lot of it would make sense, if you understand the words and have some backbone knowledge on stuff like functions and variables or simply basic code logic. Reading the code over time gives you an understanding.
  2. Prior experience in other coding languages; I had some coding logic experience in Python, and so that helped a lot because of how similar Pythonand Luau are.
  3. YouTube Tutorials that actually explain the code, and DevForum learning posts that’re widespread throughout the internet.

These are all the key things, of course with time and practice it’ll be amazing.

I have my own personal scripting guide which is 100% free in order to help the community, not to advertise, but let me know if you want access to that, and I’ll gladly share it with you.

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I learned to code by browsing the forums, looking at open-source codes etc.

However, I believe that nobody ever stops learning, and that’s the case for me! Yes, I offer scripting support but other people still help me.

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Persionally i recommend C# too, its pretty much the same too if you use it in Windows Forms. Just the public variables and co. are a bit hard

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Yeah, I agree. I mean C# does run on the . NET or . NET Core framework, while Lua is an embedded scripting language for other software, that’s a difference.

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I appreciate all your responses so far! Really Helpful!

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I just always wanted to make a game on Roblox so I searched on youtube how to script and it all started from there.

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I have Self taught myself but you can start and try with tutorials

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Thanks, we were all beginners once too, so we know how tedious the process is. :grin: