Whats the best way to learn lua without mindlessly watching hundreds of videos
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Make stuff, read the Roblox documentation and sample code when you get stuck on something not working right.
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I would say the best ways are surfing the Dev Forum, Watching YouTube tutorials, such as TDK or AlvinBlox, and exercising, a lot!
Good luck learning Lua!
Alex.
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I use a book called “Coding with Roblox Lua in 24 Hours” it is really nice and teaches most things you need to know.
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Very nice! I forgot to mention that books are helping a ton too!!
Good luck on learning Lua!
I know you will learn it but only if you want to!
Alex.
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try to make something, if youre stuck or dont know how to do it, google it and keep copy pasting code until it works. repeat this until you know how to make scripts yourself. thats how i learned it
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Ideally you would never want to strictly learn Lua, you’d want to learn how to program. Programming languages are interchangeable mediums for applying your programming knowledge, switching languages is just a matter of learning new syntax. Any programmer worth their salt can use a new language in a day’s notice, because what really matters is knowing how to logically solve problems. However, I don’t expect you to go take CS courses or anything, so here’s what I’ll suggest instead: just program. Try to make a small project and use ROBLOX and Lua documentation as needed. If you encounter a problem you don’t know how to solve, seek help from the devforum. It’s that simple.
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