Best Advice to Learn the Godot GDScript Quickly

hello GD script may be one of the easiest languages to learn but there are certain things that if you do correctly will speed up this process and make it much more enjoyable and I thought that in this video I can go the best process to learn the language and then towards the end give some quick tips and pointers to help you throughout your journey so that soon you can be on your way to creating that wonderful dream game of yours so firstly if you're brand new to coding or having trouble understanding how code and go out is working then I recommend learning the fundamentals of python scripting first and the best way to go about this is to make your way through the invent your own computer games with python book which has been posted online to read for completely free I've left a link to the site where this book is available in the description below then once you can understand python a little bit better move to Goa and start creating small projects like a character or maybe a basic enemy make sure that you try and create something that interests you because if not then you'll have no fun doing it and of course when creating your own projects you're going to end up running into errors and issues and this is a huge part of game devb if you encounter an issue and need help with anything from scripting to using the engine or how you would Implement a system into your game then don't be afraid to ask you can ask me in the comments you can watch tutorials to help learn and see how others create systems and if you want to talk with other like-minded people that are really interested in helping others on their projects and I recommend going and checking out the Goa engines official Forum page which I'll leave a link to in the description below but basically anything you can need help with will be able to be found here and if it's not then you can make your own post about your issue and I'm positive someone will help you out as you go along your journey and are creating these small one-off things like a character or an enemy you can read the go do docs to help you solve issues and understand how things work completely on your own this will lead to you learning quicker and being able to learn to solve problems on your own then repeat this over and over small idea create simple small idea fix issues to make simple small idea better then if you repeat this process enough you'll have your first game or you might have a bunch of cool little projects but for sure you'll walk away with a much better understanding of how Goa and the GD script to work this knowledge is kind of glob knowledge that can be used to learn any language but the tips I'm about to give now are specifically for Goa and the GD script and these tips are just little hints to help you along your journey first of all use Ty pins because it's going to make your life so so so much easier it will kind of autofill what comes after so you know what is able to come after that line of code for example as you can see it's given us all these options of what we can put right here and then if we go up here make sure you use this GD script help bar this this is very useful for anytime you don't know how code works I mean you can look up a function and you can know every single thing about that function where to place it what does it take the description and maybe any other little detail that you may need to know next make sure you use break points as this can help you see how your code is working and where issues are located so much easier and then make sure your scenes are built in the most efficient way so you don't have signals flying all over the place to different noes where it doesn't really need to be because that's just going to make your game more complex and confusing for no reason and then once you have all this down make sure you just practice practice and practice some more and just keep on practicing because practice is going to lead to Improvement and it's going to make you a better game developer overall all you have to do is practice practice practice thank you so so much for watching this video I hope I was able to help you out and give you some tips and pointers that could be useful and if you're brand new to Goa then I really recommend following the path that I laid out in this video as I believe it is the most beneficial way to become better at God do the quickest but until next time please subscribe and drop a like to help other aspiring game developers learn to create their own God do games stay safe and have a wonderful wonderful rest of your day [Music] bye-bye [Music]

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Length: 3min 10sec (190 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 15 2023