AlvinBlox has been going over their old tutorials and making new, better ones. I haven’t seen this DevKing person you speak of but I know for a fact AlvinBlox has some solid tutorials that helped me personally quite a bit when I first got into scripting. Even his first series is pretty good, but his newer series is even better.
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Wow guys I didn’t expect this many reply. Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply and help me! I will consider all of your tips!
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Yes, they are not exactly the same, but most of the fundamentals are similar if not the same.
I am sure you can still find tutorials on the fundamentals of ROBLOX Lua.
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I started learning by watching the racing tutorial by Roblox University on Youtube. They have other good videos too.
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You know, I think personally Alvin is better, but really what I think people need is a youtuber like grant abbitt. (he is a blender youtuber)
All roblox scripting youtubers really need to let people figure things out on their own.
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What kind of malpractices? I’d like to know because I’m currently learning from him and would like to be aware of these.
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:FindFirstChild() when its not needed
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Despite their age, roblox’s official tutorials are pretty helpful for beginners, or at least they were for me
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Even tho am also making tutorials for Lua from the ground up (Rework until now part2). I’ll say don’t waste much time on videos.
I personally use videos just to get an overall insight of the skill or the challenge am facing. after that i just practice and read the wiki, documentation and a lot of expermentation.
This method will make you suffer at the start. but in the long run it will really help you. and the solutions that you find yourself will stick into your mind for life time as long as you’re regularly using it.
Since us as humans we tend to really remember and memorize the things that made us suffer more. Without mentioning the thrill and the joy that you will get after solving a problem you were trying to fix for a long time.
But just to be clear. am not saying don’t request help, but try to learn yourself more, and give yourself some time to solve it yourself and try to figure it out before requesting help.
I seen a lot of people in other engines literally asking how to do some really basic stuff that can be easily figured out or googled in seconds.
For example (How to create a script in roblox). That’s a bad questions right there.
I recently made 2 tutorials that i tried to teach my own way Lua and roblox engine structure (I’m a slow talker so watch the video with speed x2). so far it didn’t get much support but I’ll resume it when i have enough time to do so!
PS: Personally the tutorials that i watched at the start to get familiar with what waiting me in this long path is the great channel Peaspod.
Roblox wiki, Lua documentation, Devforum and google are your best friends in the long run!
As an advanced scripter the wiki and google are my favorite!!
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Wow I really liked your video.
Also I wanna say that when I had no knowledge about scripting, I watched the YouTube videos, and then copy their code and do my own stuff with that code. I take notes in google documents about all stuff. I believe I should watch both AlvinBlox and TheDevKing beginner and advance tutorial first and then use Roblox wiki and the other stuff. But the thing is I get bored reading stuff alone in silence. I learn a lot and am actually entertained when someone is teaching it to me, as it’s easier.
Unfortunately I don’t think I can watch peasfactory as his tutorials are kind of outdated and he doesn’t upload anymore.
Thanks for the help though!
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All video tutorials is subject to being outdated. That’s why the official wiki is the best, since everything is covered, described, packed, composed and documented by the creators (Roblox engineers) themselves.
Good luck with your adventure!
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Thanks for helping me out! 
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Alvin is good at explaining what things do to an extent. At the end of the day, he basically spoon feeds you code. The same can be said about TheDevKing. however, if you watch along, copy the code, i’d say the best way to really learn what it does is search up the functions and services that are used inside of the script on the Developer Hubs API dictionary (Or whatever its called)
However, its not to say either of these YouTubers are bad, its just that personally, i haven’t learnt much from them.
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I’m currently using AlvinBlox, TheDevKing, and PeasFactory. I know this is a bit much, but my goal here is to watch each of their beginner videos, then their advanced videos. After, I could watch TheDevKing’s GUI tutorials and stuff like that. I’m going to see what I can learn out of all of them. I know most would disagree with this because they all have different ways of teaching, but I find it most beneficial because I’m learning from 3 different people and I could relate between the videos. Plus, even though they all teach different ways, I’m still learning Roblox Lua. If you agree, then maybe you could try this out.
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