Thank you for viewing this course! I have taught people online about scripting, but I have never formally made a lecturing course. You and I are on this ride together and I'm glad you're here! This course will go over scripting basics, modeling in studio, and the client-server communication model, and allow you to understand and utilize the vast array of tools, services, and classes the ROBLOX API and Luau have to offer!

If you already have an understanding of the Lua language, then feel free to skip the Fundamentals & Scripting basics section to jump right into scripting in studio!

By the end of this course, you should feel confident experimenting, scripting, and creating games, tools, & models on ROBLOX!

This lecture will show you how to install ROBLOX studio and change any settings you'd like to your own personal preference.

This lecture goes over the fundamental tools Studio has to offer you. This includes creating & manipulating parts, adjusting and moving windows to your liking, navigating the many tabs & panels, looking through properties, and installing plugins. Do NOT worry about having to remember everything! This video is mainly for exposing you to everything Studio has to offer and getting the basic controls down.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to install plugins

• How to navigate through the tabs

• How to summon & manipulate parts

This lecture will show you how to create a new script and write down your first lines of code!

This lecture will expand upon the previous one and talks about what variables & variable types are and how you can use them in your scripts.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• The seven basic data types you will use in Luau: nil, number, boolean, string, function, thread, & table.

• camelCase vs snake_case vs PascalCase

• How to reference your variables

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on variables.

This lecture continues to expand on scripting and introduces to you how to check for conditions using if statements and variables you just learned about. This is how you let computers make decisions!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to create an if statement

• How to use an if statement to check for specific conditions

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on if statements.

This lecture exposes you to a new concept called lexical scope.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• What lexical scope is

• How the end keyword is associated with scope

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on the concept of lexical scope.

This lecture explains to you everything you need to know about the string data type in Lua. We will go more in-depth about strings, specifically: string concatenation, substrings & the string library.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to concatenate strings together

• How to use the string library

• Substrings

• How to use escape characters

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on the string data type & manipulating strings.

This lecture explains to you everything you need to know about the main data type in Lua: tables!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to create tables

• How to index tables

• How to use the table library

• How to add and remove elements from a table

• Differences between arrays and dictionaries

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on tables.

This lectures explains to you everything you need to know about the three loops available to you in Lua.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to use a for loop

• How to use a for ipairs/pairs loop

• How to use a while loop

• How to use a repeat loop

• How to yield in your loops

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on the three loops in Lua.

In this lecture, we practice with loops and learn two new keywords: continue and break

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to use the continue keyword

• How to use the break keyword

This quiz will test your knowledge on the previous lectures regarding loops, variables, strings, tables, and lexical scope.

This lecture explains to you everything you need to know about the relational operators in Lua.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• The six relational operators in Lua: <, >, <=, >=, ==, ~=

• How to use relational operators in condition checking

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on the different comparison operators in Lua.

This lecture explains to you everything you need to know about the logical operators in Lua. Logical operators are super useful and have many more uses than what meets the eye!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• The three logical operators in Lua: and, or, & not

• How to use logical operators in if statements

• How to use logical operators in loops

• How to use logical operators in variable declaration

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on logical operators in Lua.

This lecture explains to you everything you need to know about functions.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to create a function

• How to 'call' a function

• How to pass information to functions

• How to return information from functions

• Difference between arguments & parameters

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on functions in Lua.

This lecture explains the helper table to tables: metatables, and the key-value pairs stored inside of them: metamethods.

Please note that this lecture is diving into some more complex ideas, so don't be disappointed or afraid if you do not understand the content here. You can ALWAYS come back to it later!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• Metatables & their uses

• How to use the __add metamethod

• How to use the __sub metamethod

• How to use the __index metamethod

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on metatables in Lua. There is absolutely no pressure to complete this quiz. If you did not understand the previous lecture, then you can go ahead and skip this quiz for now and come back again once you've learned more about scripting & the Lua language.

This lecture continues to expand on tables and metatables, shows you how to create and call functions in tables, and how to imitate a class in Luau.

Please note that this lecture is diving into some more complex ideas, so don't be disappointed or afraid if you do not understand the content here. You can ALWAYS come back to it later!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• Constructors

• How to create functions & methods in tables

• How to utilize the __index metamethod for object-oriented programming.

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on constructors in metatables. There is absolutely no pressure to complete this quiz. If you did not understand the previous lecture, then you can go ahead and skip this quiz for now and come back again once you've learned more about scripting & the Lua language.

This lecture is a brief overview of coroutines and the thread data type in Luau. This topic is a little more advanced and you may or may not use coroutines while scripting your games, but it's still good to get exposed to tools that are available to you!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• The thread data type

• Understand the four states of a coroutine

• How to use the coroutine library

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on coroutines. There is absolutely no pressure to complete this quiz. If you did not understand the previous lecture, then you can go ahead and skip this quiz for now and come back again once you've learned more about scripting & the Lua language.

This lecture explains to you how to perform arithmetic in Lua (including the modulo operator), explains the order of operations, and shows you how to utilize the math library.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to use the arithmetic operators: +, -, *, /, %, and ^

• How to add, subtract, multiply, divide, & exponentiate numbers

• How to follow the orders of operations in Lua

• How to generate pseudorandom numbers

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on arithmetic and the math library.

This lecture will explain the differences between runtime and compile-time errors and how you can debug these problems.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• Differences between runtime, compile-time, and logical errors

• How to use breakpoints

• How to handle errors using the pcall() function

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on the three different errors in Lua.

This video will explain to you the fundamental ideas of algorithms and how you can plan out and implement algorithms to solve problems.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• Algorithms

• Steps to creating a working algorithm

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on all the previous information we've just learned. If you pass this quiz, you are ready to go into the next section!

This lecture explains to you how to reference services and index the workspace.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• workspace and game keywords

• :GetService() function

This lecture explains to you the difference between local scripts and server scripts.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• What server scripts are used for & how they affect the game

• What local scripts are used for & how they affect your copy of the game

This quiz will test your knowledge on the differences between local scripts and server scripts!

This lecture explains to you how to use ModuleScripts in Roblox Studio.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• The DRY principle

• The require() function

• How ModuleScripts share data between scripts

This quiz will test your knowledge on module scripts!

This lecture explains to you how to utilize the task library in ROBLOX, which allows your code to communicate directly to the ROBLOX engine's task scheduler!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to use task.spawn()

• How to use task.defer()

• How to use task.delay()

• How to use task.cancel()

This quiz will test your knowledge on the functions within the task library!

This lecture explains the data types that exist in the ROBLOX engine, such as CFrame, Vector3, Enum, & more.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• The commonly used data types like: Color3, Vector3, Instance, Enum, Random, & CFrame

• How to use these data types in scripts

This quiz will test your knowledge on the different data types in the Roblox API!

This lecture explains, in-depth, everything you need to know about coordinate frames to manipulate the location and rotation of parts!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to manipulate the CFrame of a part

• How to use arithmetic on CFrames

• How to use linear interpolation

This quiz will test your knowledge on CFrames!

This lecture explains what the Enum data type is.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• What an enum is

• How to refer to all enums in the Roblox API

This quiz will test your knowledge on enums!

This lecture explains how to use scripts to connect to events in ROBLOX.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to connect to the .Touched event

• Lambda/anonymous functions

This quiz will test your knowledge on the Roblox data type: RBXScriptSignal

Let's practice with events by using Proximity Prompts and the Triggered event!

This lecture will explain the Client-Server communication model implemented by ROBLOX and how you can let scripts communicate between the client and server.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How the client-server communication system works

• What remote & bindable events/functions are

This lecture explains how to communicate with the client and server using remote events and remote functions.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to retrieve data from the server via remote functions

• How to communicate and send data between the client and server

This quiz will test you on client-server communication, remote events, and remote functions!

This lecture will explain the ROBLOX API Class: tool. I will show you the properties and events of the tool instance and how you can create your own donut item that heals you when you eat it!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• What tools are and how you can use them

• How to connect functions to events

• How to utilize remote events

This lecture will explain how to use the rig builder and animator to create custom animations.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to use the ROBLOX animator

• How to change easing styles/directions

• How to change animation priority

• How to save your animations to ROBLOX

This lecture will explain how to implement and handle animations in your scripts.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• :WaitForChild()

• How to load animations via the animation controller

• How to handle animations using the animation track events

• How to play sounds via scripts

• How to 'declare' the type of a variable

This lecture will explain how to use the Tween Service.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to create & play a Tween

• How to play tweens on the client rather than the server

This quiz will test you on the TweenService!

Using the BetterTween module we created in the TweenService lecture, let's practice and create a sliding door!

This lecture will take a deeper dive into the toolbox and how to look out for malicious scripts in free models.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to search for certain keywords in scripts

• Why getfenv(), require(), and string.reverse() are used in malicious scripts

This lecture will help you to understand how to read error messages that appear in the console!

This quiz will test your knowledge on error messages that appear in the console!

Listening to input from clients is crucial for creating any game on ROBLOX, so this lecture takes a peek at how we can listen to user input via the UserInputService!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• UserInputService.InputBegan

• UserInputService.InputEnded

• InputObjects

This quiz will test you on the UserInputService!

What happens when we want to listen to a user's input only in specific situations? We use the ContextActionService, which allows us to bind actions (inputs) contextually!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to bind & unbind actions

• How to let input pass to multiple bound actions

• How to listen to multiple inputs simultaneously & add buttons for mobile devices

This quiz will test you on the ContextActionService!

When creating things in our game, we sometimes find ourselves wanting to make multiple of the same thing, like a kill brick. To make this process easy & efficient, we use the CollectionService!

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to collect objects with a given tag

• How to check objects for specific tags

• How to listen for when objects are added/destroyed with a specific tag

This quiz will test your knowledge on the CollectionService!

This lecture demonstrates how to use content streaming on Roblox to improve the loading time and memory usage of your games.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How ModelStreamingBehavior affects nonatomic models

• The different per-model streaming modes

• StreamingMinRadius & StreamingTargetRadius

This quiz is going to test your knowledge on Instance Streaming!

This lecture goes over how to store data for players in the cloud which can be accessed again when the player joins the game at a future point in time.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to save & grab data from a data store

• The get, set, read, and write limits for data stores

• How to create a leaderboard

This lecture shows how we can store player data in a sorted manner, giving us the ability to grab the top players for a given set of data (most kills, most money, etc).

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to create an OrderedDataStore

• How to grab the top keys in an OrderedDataStore

This lecture will test your knowledge on storing data using Data Stores.

This lecture shows how we can fire an invisible ray in our workspace and grab a result if that ray hit any 3D object.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• How to fire a ray

• RaycastParams

• How to visualize a raycast

This lecture shows how can use the TextChatService and Rich Text Markup to modify and stylize text messages in our game.

By the end of this lecture you should be able to understand:

• .OnBubbleAdded and .OnIncomingMessage

• How to insert rich text tags in strings to stylize text

• TextChatMessage instances

This lecture takes a look at the PathfindingService and how we can use it to move rigs along a path to get to a desired destination.

This quiz will test your knowledge on the pathfinding service!

Attributes are a way for developers to store data on instances and share that data across multiple scripts. Let's take a look at how to use them!

It is commonly stated that the difference between a beginner developer and a senior developer is how well they can google or find information. And this is mostly true!

This lecture will take a look at why the Roblox Dev Forum, Google, and even ChatGPT are going to be your friends in the scripting world.

This lecture will take a closer look into the terrain tool.

By the end of this video you should be able to understand:

• How generate terrain

• How to create & manipulate terrain

This lecture will take a closer look at parts and their properties

By the end of this video you should be able to understand:

• Properties like AssemblyLinearVelocity, CanCollide, CanQuery, Reflectance, etc