New in MTA Scripting

[APCLegend]

Hello Community, I´m new in this world of Scripting and i want to learn how to code by myself, the people in this forum who are expert in Lua and MTA Scripting can you give me any advice on where do i start and Some sources on  where i can go to start learning and  other advices?

 

Thank you

[NeXuS™]

If you are totally new, you should start by learning the actual programming. Lua manual is a good way to start.

If you are done reading the manual, and you kinda understand everything which is written there, you can change to the MTA Wiki which has a lot of useful information.

[APCLegend]

Thank you very much  

[APCLegend]

2 hours ago, NeXuS™ said:

If you are totally new, you should start by learning the actual programming. Lua manual is a good way to start.

If you are done reading the manual, and you kinda understand everything which is written there, you can change to the MTA Wiki which has a lot of useful information.

One question if i learn Lua and i become an expert will i understand the MTA Wiki easy and how much will it take to learn MTA Script

[Saml1er]

I think it's better if you start with video tutorials on youtube, like this one. Lua manual is good for people who have already programmed in a language like python, I don't think it's noob friendly.

[NeXuS™]

It is beginner friendly. Videos can help, but its much easier to understand it if you read it over and over again.

You'll be able to understand coding in general, so you'll kinda understand more from the wiki page, yeah.

[Hoffmann]

Learning pure Lua might be too difficult and boring for beginners who have never had any programming experience. I advise you to begin with simple scripts from MTA Wiki. You should take attempts to edit original code, experiment with it. For example, script with command "/ping" that will output your ping in the chatbox:

function outputMyPing(player, cmd)
    local ping = getPlayerPing(player)
    outputChatBox("* Your ping: ".. ping, player, 255, 255, 255, false)
end
addCommandHandler("ping", outputMyPing)

How would you improve this command? You may add some colors in the chat message, some conditions(if ping is low then message is green, red otherwise) and etc. There're no limits in ideas, and everything depends on your imagination.

 

Note that you should have some basic programming knowledges including variables, arrays, loops and etc.

Edited May 6, 2018 by NeverUnbeatable

[NeXuS™]

And those basics are taught in that Lua manual.

[APCLegend]

Well i´ll try everything you advice me, thank you