Hey as a 9 year veteran on Roblox and a scripter on the platform, I would say learn the basics to programming like functions, variables, arrays, dictionaries, and basic math. These components will allow you to read any documentation on Roblox developer forum explaining all of the APIs like data saving and you will be able to understand the code as well as build onto it.

A few years back when I wanted to learn Roblox scripting I ended up buying a copy of this book and it was fantastic. Thanks for recommending this book to a larger audience, it deserves more recognition!

animation: become a film buff / cinephile scripting: practicing and morphine / studying building: get a degree in architecture modelling: be good at blender VFX artists: watch studio ufotable animes SFX artists: be a parrot GFX: photoshop

This is a such a well edited video for such a small channel, keep up the passion king, you'll make it one day, i believe in you bro, and im proud of you

I'm really impressed with the quality of your videos! Thanks for the tips. Hope you grow your channel and keep it up! :)

I taught myself using the roblox docs website, I didn’t need video tutorials or a book. I learned how to code pretty well in about 3 months with this too.

Thanks for telling about this book! I tried scripting a little bit, but I felt like I couldn't understand it good enough. I wish your content to get more recognition!

I bought the book, and even though I'm already an "advanced" scripter, I wanted to see it as it could inspire my friends. It's brilliant, even after 5 years of scripting, this book can still solidify my expertise and reinforce some other things. Appreciate it

Yet another legendary video from the one and only Ludius! I'm waiting for the day the algorithm decides to recommend your videos to people.

Ive wanted to get into coding for about a year now but never really understood it ill be watching your content because of this video and you inspired me thank you ill be ordering that book as soon as i can (:

The most underrated channel i have seen, im a 3d modeler looking to script and this vid UNLOCKED it

Hey currently on Chapter 4 Functions of the book. Even tho am not a book guy the guide teached me more than any other video i've ever watched on scripting. Thanks for recommanding that book !

as someone who is developing a game that is gonna be filled with lots of stuff, i need dis

Thanks a lot for your great guidelines it helped a lot

I actually got the book but i ripped the pages of it in a fit of rage. Never thought 2 year old actions could get back to you.

Your videos are underrated as man, I can tell you are going to get big one day and i'll be here waiting and watching. Keep going bro!

Yo u earnt a new subscriber, im starting my scripting journey today thanks for the help!

great and smooth explanation keep up the good work!

I also did the watch and replicate for months on end and it gave me a very solid basis for further scripting

bought the book and watched plenty tutorials. learned how to do a lot in less than a week!

scripting is as easy as reading an baby tale, the hard part is to remember and understand

i learned luau entirely from making edits of server-sided scripts such as Blind Reaper and figuring out what things do, how things work, and how to make it do what i want it to do, and eventually it got me to where i am now

Something I noticed was that the pace of the video kept changing. The information is great. Stay strong 💪

you already know it's going to be a fire video when Ludius says "Lemme tell you a quick story" (In all seriousness I am so glad to have a found someone on hear who explains everything as quickly and efficiently as you do, I really hope the Algorithm starts pushing out more of your vids soon)

I loved this video because it was useful and helpful for me, So....I subscribed. And thanks for everything..

this book taught me how to script in lua, I was a builder (a pretty sucky one at that) until i got this book. 0 real tutorials before the book, and now I can actually script. Still don't really udnerstand the x in pairs thing, but it's a great book

I actually read this book like 2 years ago and it did help me a lot lol

I'm glad you say that, I literally had the book sitting on my desk

wow this acually helped me so much! (and supprisingly i already have this book for some reason lol)

Ludius: wanna know how to script? also ludios: Buy a book instead of me teaching you

i remember seeing this book and i was considering to buy it but skimmed through it and decided not to. i really recommend this book, but if you want to take the longer easier path, learn off from free models and the devforum like i have done for 5 years

I remember when I went to a B&N I saw this book and I got it. I hadn't touched in a while, but this video reminded me that it was literally on my desk. Maybe I should try scripting?

a great playlist that helped me start to code was by CovertCode. For some reason he was the only one that had me understanding. A big part in learning is also experience. Try to do things in roblox studio without copying a playlist, make a challenge for yourself.

Making small and small systems is the best way to go you wont get anywhere without reading and searching and trying nothing starts easy

I bought this book years ago and never touched it but I found it again and I’m gonna use it 😭😭

thanks for the video, i'll be sure to check out the book

That book solidified my base and taugh5 me more

seems pretty solid, ima see if i can get a copy if its not too $$

yoo i actually have that book, the second i saw it on this video i ran to go get it ive been coding for a few years and i felt like i didnt make much progress, but when i got that book it felt really simple and i started to understand how to do a lot thedevking is also a very good scripting channel

You may or may not have just saved my life.

AGREED THE DEV KINGS PLAYLISTS ARE THE BEST! Sadly his new videos are trash..

I recommend everyone to check out if their local library has the Heath Haskins book, was able to grab a copy of it today :)

I love the dev king I followed dev king he is who I personally would recommend no matter the date unless it frost work its a good base

there actually is an updated version of that book

Heath Haskins book is actually really good as I own it, after I lost interest in developing I gave it to a friend who is now a great scripter!

what I did after watching the first couple tutorials is just figuring out which methods/things I need, to make what I intend to do and if you just experiment from there u WILL learn fast. To learn you just gotta do it. (And instead of copying word for word from other scripts just go through the script and really make sure you understand what it does and what methods they use.. from on there you can make the script without copying word for word)

I use the dev form, Roblox docs, and other people scripts and just reading them. I also create small projects to learn and practice my scripting skills, it seems to help a lot. Somehow all of this led to me getting 5 million visits. Small developer still.

I learned scripting from just making different games over and over again and its more fun but it takes more time than learning from tutorials or books.

also, a very good way to assist you in learning how to script is by looking at other people's code and trying to understand and figure out what it is doing

I'm litteraly becoming a roblox game maker machine. Learning scripting, building in roblox and modeling in blender, VFX and sounds. I swear-

Lol I used Roblox studio for 6 years now and never felt like scripting but always wanted to so I guess I'm gonna give it a try

Hey Ludius, I noticed theres a new version of the book by the same person that's more up to date. Would you recommend that one over the one showed in the video?

I’m guessing the version you showed in the video is better but just in case there is an updated version is that one worth getting over the older one ?

i have that book. im gonna read it so thoroughly

I NEED TO CLARIFY IS THAT UNDERTALE OSTS IN BACKGROUND THIS BOOK IS THE REPRESENTATION OF MY HOPES AND DREAMS!!

Just placed a reserve on this book earlier today, before watching this vid. Now I know it was worth it.

My general problem with scripting is the fact that shortened commands or whatever you call it are hard to understand. I can only make a NPC walk to a part, dialogchoice, or actual dialog (using label text guis) and the rest confuse me as they just don't fit together to make a sentence. But i am slowly learning.

I decided not to sleep on it and get the book, it seems really good! Thanks for the advice, I will see how this goes for the next few months!

As a small roblox dev making a game called "Untitled Crossroads Games" after I made the game I found out that I had a scripting type of power, for all those roblox noobs out there, practice always makes perfect, so please practice, most small devs get lazy at practicing.

no way. Before I watched this video I’ve already been watching the dev king , and I’ve had that book too and been using that 😂

Learned Lua in 3 months + scripting, 3d Modeling. Made around 148k Robux by doing Freelance and got heavily into Programming and learning other languages. Definitely worth the try.

I was bought this book a while ago and was going to use it. Now I need it and can't find it for the life of me!

Just bought the book! I've been a builder for 4 years now and I want to finally start making my own games without paying other people to script for me :D

thanks for tthe info, im mainly a youtuber but i wanted to get into deving

im doing that thing again where i spend 2 weeks trying to learn how to script (but then give up) lets hope i dont give up this time

i got this book like 2 years ago and I never got to reading it, I looked up that there is an updated version of this book

this man is the fast talking man in ads irl

What i actually recommend is getting any long piece of code thats at least 1 thousand lines, and try and see what the code does. Try and copy some lines and put them into a diffrent script and see the outcome, and if it needs and variables added and stuff. Thats how i learned. I also (i dont recommend this) learned from hacking and cheating scripts.

imagine taking months to learn scripting. i simply learnt basics and now when i have problem (mostly advanced problems) i got in forums or docs and get my answer and then i learn or ask in the roblox studio community

Should do a tutorial on how you learned to edit videos

I dunno why I'm getting this video since I don really wanna code, but you konw what? I'll save this video, maybe get this book when I get money

I got this book for christmas and nor it is somewhere in my house but I lost it :( I did use it and honestly I got where I am now by watching tutorials but the book was SOOOOO important

I literally watched this video one day after I ordered that book

wow, a sponser! how amazing!!!

for people that want to stil kinda go trough the basics: how to code lua in 24 hours, the book is a solid 8/10, great for beginners

i read the lua docs and then i could code tho i do not reccommended. I personally feel like lua is one of the easiest languages i've ever learned. if ur silly, learning luau/roblox sandbox stuff can be learned by copying code from the devforum and then evolving on it repeativley

I remember wanting the book so bad when I was a noob, but I got through strong👌👌

just ordered the book, im a very basic scripter and can basically do nothing except change properties and create new intances but soon i hope to script entire games

2 questions: 1.The dev kings tutorials still good in 2023? 2.There's a newer version of the book should I buy that instead? (Also great video)

Hey so I was looking into getting back into game development seriously with Roblox and I was taking a look at this book on Amazon, and I was wondering if there are any outdated scripts or significant errors in the book?

I read the book when I was 12 I didn’t realize it till now how important it is to me. I’m 15 now.

I'll buy it when I can, cause I have been TRYING to learn how to code cause I really wanna make fun projects and stupid games also just for fun. but most videos, sites, and anything else I came across seems lack luster in fully understanding the language

I was actually thinking about getting this book before, but now I'll get it for sure! :)

Hey! Just as a question, I'm starting to make devlog videos, and i wanna know what editing software you use! Thanks!

Searched up the book there is the one you showed and apparently the guy made a updated version imma just get the newer one cuz I know the basic basics but idk how people plug everything together I know variables and math and all that but it was from the game Lua learning but it didn’t teach me anything bout connect: and if do etc

I purchased an updated edition of the Heath Haskins book hoping that i would gain some insight on how I could understand scripting more (because I've been struggling to understand the FUNDAMENTALS of scripting for over 2 years as of now) but the book doesn't even do that for me unfortunately.

i think my cousin has one, but i might cop it too

Hey @ludius! I want to buy the book, but there is a new version, which one should i buy? Thanks.

Best video ima buy the book

im spending the money to buy the book, hopefully its as good as u say.

I bought the newer version of the book. I'll see how it goes!

If I have a basic python foundation how long do you think it will take for me to finish a scripting basics playlist and that book?

theres an updated version of the heath book from 2022,, do you know if its worth it? or is the original better

I wasn't expecting someone to talk about thedevking

Hey man me personally i am still learning Roblox lua and i have purchased the advanced book but also the one that says in 24 hours in my opinion i like the second better but its just opinions i guess

well i cant get the book but ill watch kingdevs video playlist

BRO I LEGIT LEARNED WITH ALL THESE THINGS XD

I'm legit doing coding for a course, and I just wanna know how to script for fun. Haven't bought the book, idk if its any good, but ill check it out, good to see some people trying to make a difference ^^

bit late to the video, just ordered the updated version 10 mins ago so hopefully it comes tomorrow!

hey. i've been scriping for 4 years already, and i know some basics stuff, like functoins, variables, can change properties of instances, use remoteEvents, etc. I've learned it mostly from free models and youtube tutorials. Should I still buy that book?