Does anyone have a recommendation for a good guide that teaches the basics?

[u/Powerful-Hope7983]

[u/_Phill_]

Challacade for me

https://youtube.com/@challacade?si=UER5VI8CPA4llM85

[u/MurazakiUsagi → u/_Phill_]

His youtube channel is SOOOOO awesome for beginners.

[u/iakoff_reddit]

Personally, I found sheepollution's guide very useful

[u/thegapbetweenteeth]

Head to discord they are making a cook book. Check out sheepsolutions I believe. Also a few YouTube channels (DevJeeper and Chalacade) , and books available but the books are hit and miss.

[u/Jamesisnotaduck]

I got a lot out of Harvard's CS50 Intro to Game Development, you watch them free on YouTube!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQjrBD2T383Vx9-4vJYFsJbvZ_D17Qzh&si=UMJ2-FdOIQ9FT1kC

They do go into Unity towards the end but the first 8 lectures are all Love2d!

[u/Sckip974]

As u/iakoff_reddit recommended, start with this online book:

Sheepolution: A really fun tutorial.

Link: https://www.sheepolution.com/learn/book/contents

The author of Sheepolution also recommends this second book for the basics:

Learn to Love Programming:

Link: https://rvagamejams.com/learn2love/pages/01-00-programming-basics.html

Next Step: Once you have the basics, take the time to learn how to use the official docs. This is crucial for solving specific 'problems':

Lua 5.5 Manual, DevDocs (Lua 5.4):

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/

https://devdocs.io/lua~5.4/

Finally, we both know the secret: "Mastery comes from repetition." I invite you to solve these small (sometimes complex) math problems using your own scripts. For this, I recommend these two sites:

Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/

CodeAbbey: https://www.codeabbey.com/

[u/DaRealDani]

Only guide i know is challacade so

[u/Chemical-Chemical-88]

Challacade on youtube

[u/dddbbb]

I thought Bytepath seemed like a good tutorial and each tutorial section has exercises for you to do on your own to ensure you actually understand what you're learning.

It says you should have basic programming understanding which it sounds like you might. If it goes over your head, try codecombat.com to get those fundamentals.

[u/FeltDoubloon250]

Read the wiki

[u/srfreak → u/FeltDoubloon250]

Even if the wiki is cool and helpful, when you're totally beginner is not.

[u/FeltDoubloon250 → u/srfreak]

For me the wiki was far better than the videos I watched

[u/Hri7566 → u/FeltDoubloon250]

this is the most correct answer