To all you programmers out there.

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#180925163Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:23 PM GMT

Chances are, if you script with Lua, you are a programmer. But, I heard Lua is one of the most easiest languages and I believe that. We use rbx.lua which is even more basic than Lua. So I was wondering if I should speed up my progress with programming and learn more than one at a time? Maybe something similar like python? Or should I wait until I really get good at Lua? What did you guys do?

Mechyyz

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#180925272Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:24 PM GMT

Python is a bit hard, trust me, I think you should know some before you learn Lua.

UFAILTOO

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#180925470Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:27 PM GMT

Python is a very common first language and has some similarities to Lua.

Moronism

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#180925533Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:28 PM GMT

If you are going to learn a programming language, I would suggest that you choose the language based on its viability for your given situation. It is not necessarily the language itself that matters entirely; it is the programming concepts, problem-solving capability, and self-determination that creates the eventual result.

mudkip99

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#180925678Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:30 PM GMT

C is pretty simple to learn (C++ is currently the industry standard, and it's built on C, but it is NOT an easy language to learn) C introduces the basics well, as well as teaching you some things like memory management that managed languages like Java won't teach you. No, it's not object-oriented, and you won't be making any fancy programs off the bat (mostly just command prompt and file I/O in the beginning), but C is the foundation of almost every major language in use today, and it's relatively easy to learn.

triode

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#180926520Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:41 PM GMT

from Rbx.lua I went straight to C++,

DeepBlueNoSpace

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#180926652Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:43 PM GMT

I went rbx.Lua, Java, then Python

cntkillme

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#180928877Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:12 PM GMT

Yes. It's all about the concepts. Learning Lua as a first language on Roblox is great because you can immediately apply anything you learn. And the concepts you learn are typically general throughout programming. Also I wouldn't call "C" easy, just because it's very small (esp. compared to C++) languages like C (manual memory management, statically typed, typically resemble what's actually going on, etc.) are very "different" than languages like Lua where all the low-level concepts are abstracted away into a cloud of fluff and magic.

chimmmihc

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#180928964Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:13 PM GMT

Python is in my opinion more powerful than lua, and slightly harder. captain tiein' knots. whenever someone need a knot tied they goto him

cntkillme

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#180929149Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:16 PM GMT

It's not really fair to compare the two. Lua is meant to be lightweight, compact, and portable whereas Python was built with much more features but because of that, it's much larger in size and (ignoring JIT compilers) typically slower (as far as I can tell, at least).

cofunction

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#180929266Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:17 PM GMT

I've been learning html.

UnstableScript0

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#180929320Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:18 PM GMT

I was going to reply then forgot it. When I looked up "Ninjas" in Thesaurus.com, it said "Ninja's can't be found" Well played Ninjas, well played.

mudkip99

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#180929574Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:22 PM GMT

@Advanced, HTML isn't a programming language, it's a markup language

UnstableScript0

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#180929632Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:23 PM GMT

I'm pretty sure he knows that, he is pretty reputable. When I looked up "Ninjas" in Thesaurus.com, it said "Ninja's can't be found" Well played Ninjas, well played.

cofunction

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#180929637Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:23 PM GMT

Then I've been learning a markup language :)

iiEssence

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#180929694Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:24 PM GMT

"HTML isn't a programming language, it's a markup language" Oh please not this again

cofunction

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#180929707Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:24 PM GMT

I will admit it does have it's boringness... A lot of it.

PureConcept

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#180930051Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:29 PM GMT

Where do y'all learn ur shiz

cntkillme

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#180930151Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:30 PM GMT

The internet, johnny, the internet. and also lots of source code and trial and error for me

cofunction

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#180930175Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:30 PM GMT

CodeCademy. (has Java, Ruby, HTML & CSS etc)

iiEssence

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#180930219Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:31 PM GMT

I learned life through manga and anime

mudkip99

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#180930624Saturday, January 02, 2016 8:36 PM GMT

@MahouReikon currently studying CS in college, which is probably the "best" way to learn outside of personal experience, but there are free resources everywhere on the internet to learn any language you could possibly imagine.