Coding with Roblox Lua in 24 hours : the official Roblox guide.
Publication Information
[Indianapolis, Indiana] : Pearson, [2022]
Physical Description
ix, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Series
Summary
Teaches Roblox game developers the skills and techniques needed to master the essentials of Lua programming in 24 lessons of one hour or less.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Coding your first project
- Properties and variables
- Creating and using functions
- Working with parameters and arguments
- Conditional structures
- Debouncing and debugging
- While loops
- For loops
- Working with arrays
- Working with dictionaries
- Client versus server
- Remote events: one-way communication
- Using modulescripts
- Coding in 3D world space
- Smoothly animating objects
- Solving problems with algorithms
- Saving data
- Creating a game loop
- Monetization: one-time purchases
- Object-oriented programming
- Inheritance
- Raycasting
- Plopping objects in an experience: part 1
- Plopping objects in an experience: part 2
- Appendix A: Roblox basics.