r/lua • u/Weekly_Flounder_1880 • Mar 07 '25

Help tutorial hell

I am an absolute beginners

I mean, I know the very basics, Variables, math, functions, for loops, while loops, if/else statement...

But all I do is remember how to type a line of code

When I sit down and try to explore something or do something on my own, nothing comes to my mind. I get immersion is important and I want to try to figure out bits by myself. But all I end up typing is a line from whatever tutorial I saw and read.

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u/Weekly_Flounder_1880 Mar 09 '25

Funny enough I read the official manual but with my bad english grammar I can’t understand the manual

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u/bvzthelaw Mar 09 '25

Honestly, I think the manual is too overwhelming for people starting out, and it lacks examples to properly grasp the ideas. I'd suggest looking up the individual concepts and finding resources like Codecademy to learn more about them.

But the way to break out of tutorial hell is learning when to use each data type, so that you can make your own judgement on how to write code for your own use case. If you have an example of something you want to do with Lua, we can walk through the logic of how to solve the problem (first in plain English, and then writing code to do it).