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I wanna start learning scripting. Any recommendations?

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I've tried websites, youtube series, even forums and even those seem a bit too complicated to me sometimes, it feels like I'm either just too dumb, these tutorial makers expect me to fully understand the concept without an in-depth yet simple explanations or both. So far every tutorial I've followed I got stuck at what return does.

My main issue isn't return, I just want a place where I can learn scripting as if I had the mind of an 8 year old. I don't want to give up yet because I either make my own game or I'll never find the perfect one.

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idk if youve done this yet, but look up alvinblox on yt, hes good for complete beginners who dont really know anything in lua

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AlvinBlox is not your best choice for beginning, watch PeasPod. He has short tutorials and entire playlists explaining each code categories of programming, including UI related work—work up to his advanced playlists then move onto Spooks HD to see applications of more advanced programming. AlvinBlox is a somewhat good resource, but is nowhere credible, please do not retain his coding habits.

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I completely agree with Feahren, and think that is what you should do, but have a look at what I have to say for most of these random tutorials where they were just made in an hour or two and called something like 'THE MASTER PROGRAMMING GUIDE FOR LUA!'. These people are usually just trying to get a youtube channel going or be well-known in the community. You do not always want to learn from these

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(Extension from previous comment) people. When I started learning Lua at first, I took smaller steps than usual. I made sure that I mastered my knowledge of one feature to then move on to another. For example, I spent a few days messing around with functions until I got them to work how I wanted them to. Then more things like loops and how they work. Happy programming! - greeenblox

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Do not start any big projects. Keep them small. Like, learn how to change any music playing or to destroy bricks, models, and other things. Once you learn how to do that stuff, try to develop yourself a little more and up the challenge. For Example, instead of changing the music, you're making a whole music playlist where once the music ends another song plays in order or random. Or another example, Once you learn how to move or change GUIs from script try make a menu. The reason why I tell you that this helps is that as you do this you learn more and more small things that give you a much better understanding of LUA coding.

One other thing. Get as much help or find as many tutorials as you want. Although I wouldn't recommend looking at tutorials that just tell you to copy down their code. You can do that if you want to, but you won't be learning much from it. But, it's easier to understand the code their using once you get a better understanding of how LUA coding works, just like I said before.

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Learn to read and I interpret programs first, this will strengthen your understanding of logic, and help you build a library of tools or methods of applying code to create stronger programs of your own resolve.

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I would say AlvinBlox, listen to what he says don't skip parts of the videos and listen to him explain what things do and why.

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AlvinBlox plagiarizes scripts and writes inefficient code. His programs are notoriously known for bugging, and are overall apply poor practices that lead learners into bad habits further down their road of scripting which only lengthens the amount of work it takes to get better. Please do not use AlvinBlox, I suggest PeasPod to bring you into all things beginners up to advanced, and Spooks HD

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