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No. Don’t use YouTube if you actually want to learn. Unfortunately the videos on there are mainly full of misinformation and spoon-feeding as well as bad coding practices.
If you want to learn Lua there is lua.org/pil/1.2.html and if you need to learn the Roblox API use developer.roblox.com
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I can do anything but sorry I can’t go to lua.org again, it’s not helpful and it’s a very unpopular coding language so there are not a lot of tutorials for it.
Do you think reading from the Roblox wiki or the dev hub is a better way than lua.org.
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How is it not helpful? And how is Lua unpopular? Literally every programmer on Roblox has used Lua because of Roblox.
LÖVE 2D is an engine that uses Lua. Garry’s Mod uses Lua as well.
Here is a list of Lua-scripted games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lua-scripted_video_games
It is not job of the Developer Hub to teach you Lua but the Roblox API.
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Books are generally approved by experts in that field which makes them more reliable. You won’t need a book but if you really want to learn that bad I recommend it.
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Youtube isn’t a bad place to learn scripting, whatsoever. But to expand your knowledge on the API, you’ll need to do some extra reading.
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Watching YouTube tutorials for learning the bare bones is fine. But once you learn enough to understand Functions, Events & Services the use of the Roblox Developer Website will be much more beneficial. API reference guides will provide way better information and syntax than YouTube videos.
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They are the same though. The Lua Roblox uses just is modified to fit their game’s data model.
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By saying that you are degrading the creators who spent countless hours teaching individuals useful information.
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I can agree, “misinformation” is a really strong word.
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That doesn’t necessarily mean the information they are giving is correct. I am sorry but the truth needs to be told.
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What @sjr04 mentioned about YouTube tutorials is true. Many are designed to cover a very specific game feature and rarely do they leave the viewers to test new things. If you use YouTube tutorials make sure you use what you learned to expand on your own ideas so you can understand the code and it’s usage outside of that one tutorial.
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YouTube is still helpful to me, I don’t know about you. I guess it’s not for everyone, but I do still recommend using YouTube to learn programming as you watch the person explaining you the code while they are writing it vs reading it on the website. Anyway, YouTube, Roblox Developer Hub, and Roblox Developer Forum are all good resources for learning or asking questions on.
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Yeah that is another problem. The videos are often too specific to be useful/have multiple use cases. Some just code an entire game for you but what will you be able to do after that.
Also the viewers generally grow too dependent on youtube videos and are never able to make a project without youtube. This can be proved by going to the comment section of these types of videos.
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Can you explain “misinformation”. Alright then when they had a video on functions, tell me what is it that they are sharing is misinformation. Also funny enough, Roblox themselves put AlvinBlox on the dev hub, and they recommend the channel on their channel recommendations.
Was it useful to you though? You never know if you were taught misinformation if you are new.
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Maybe you guys should take this to private DMs.
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You are generalising, I have watched YouTube tutorials and never experienced any misinformation, I have seen outdated videos.
— parceni
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I can’t say all sources are 100% reliable, but majority covers the basics of programming so it’s up to how you research it and what you think is best.
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