Mastering Roblox Coding: The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

Cover
Title Page
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Copyright and Credits
Part 1: Start Programming with Roblox
Chapter 1: Getting Up to Speed with Roblox and Luau Basics
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Roblox and Luau
		Creating an account
		Introducing Luau
	Understanding and using data types in Luau
		Creating a script
		Hello, world!
		Numbers
		Math operations
		Combining math operations
		String concatenation
		Escape characters
		Casting data types
		Booleans
		Logical operators
		Introducing and using variables
		Lower and upper camel case
		Updating variables
		Removing magic numbers
		Introducing constants
	Using conditionals
		Relational operators
		if-else conditionals
		Using elseif
		Nested if statements
	Understanding scopes
	Exercise 1.1 – Changing properties on a part
	Exercise 1.2 – Police system part I
	Exercise 1.3 – Understanding a script
	Summary
Chapter 2: Writing Better Code
	Technical requirements
	Using functions
		Making a function
		Parameters and arguments
		Multiple parameters
		Default parameter values
		Returning functions
		Multiple return values
		Nested functions
		Best practices when using functions
	Storing data types in tables
		Storing data in a table
		Reading data from a table
		Setting data in a table
		Using dictionaries
		Multi-dimensional tables
		Functions in a table
	Programming loops
		while loops
		repeat until loops
		for loops
		Continuing and stopping a loop
		Large oops
	Using modules
		Creating a module script
		Requiring the module from another script
	Exercise 2.1 – simple elevator
	Exercise 2.2 – converting loops
	Exercise 2.3 – Police System II (difficult)
	Summary
Chapter 3: Event-Based Programming
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to events
		Functions on instances
		Listening to events
		Using properties for missing events
	Creating custom events
		Using bindable events
		Using bindable functions
		Comparing events to modules (advanced)
		Using bindable events in modules (advanced)
	Exercise 3.1 – event-based game
	Summary
Part 2: Programming Advanced Systems
Chapter 4: Securing Your Game
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the client and server
		Introducing LocalScripts
		FilteringEnabled
		Replication exceptions to FilteringEnabled
		Client and server responsibilities
	Using RemoteEvents and RemoteFunctions
		Setting up the GUI
		Client-sided Team Changer
		Using RemoteEvents
		Using RemoteEvents from the server to the client
		Using RemoteFunctions
	Implementing security
		Server checks
		Implementing debounces
		Honeypots
	Filtering user text
		TextObject
		The GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync function
		The GetChatForUserAsync function
	Exercise 4.1: Securing your game
		Exercise:
	Summary
Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Game
	Technical requirements
	Understanding and using StreamingEnabled
		Enabling StreamingEnabled
		Programming with StreamingEnabled
	Working with animations
		Uploading animations
		Understanding the Animator object
		Programming an AnimationTrack
		Animations on NPCs
	Working with tweens
		Setting up the gate
		Setting up the server scripts
		Getting tween data
		Understanding TweenInfo
		Creating a tween
		Client-sided debounces
		Custom yielding functions
	Exercise 5.1 – greeting an NPC
	Exercise 5.2 – falling block
	Summary
Chapter 6: Creating User Interfaces for All Devices
	Technical requirements
	Creating GUIs
		Using ScreenGuis
		Using SurfaceGuis
		Using BillboardGuis
		Optimizing UIs
	Testing GUIs
	Small UI improvements
		Working with color-blindness
		Displaying controls
		Improving GUI navigation
		Using images
		Using Tweens
		Core GUIs
	Exercise 6.1 – Creating a shop GUI
	Summary
Chapter 7: Listening to User Input
	Technical requirements
		Working with ClickDetectors
		Working with ProximityPrompts
		Working with tools
	Implementing advanced user input
		Keyboard input
		Gamepad input
		Mouse input
		ContextActionService
	Choosing how to listen to user input
	Exercise 7.1 – Eating food
	Summary
Chapter 8: Building Data Stores
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to data stores
		Saving data
		Error handling
		Reading data
		Creating default player data
		Saving tables
		Saving dictionaries
		Saving user data in data stores
		Removing data
	Writing safer data stores
		Caching data
		Autosaving
		Improving error handling
		Data store limitations
		Creating a DataManager
		Setting versus updating data
	Working with ordered data stores
	Exercise 8.1 – Building and testing data stores
	Exercise 8.2 – Simple obby
	Summary
Chapter 9: Monetizing Your Game
	Technical requirements
	Programming game passes
		Prompting game passes
		Rewarding game passes
		Instant game pass reward
	Implementing developer products
		Prompting developer products
		Rewarding developer products
		Working with PolicyService
	Giving Premium Benefits
		Implementing Premium Benefits
	Third-party sales
		Implementing third-party sales
	Exercise 9.1 – building a currency system
	Summary
Part 3: Creating Your Own Simulator Game
Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Simulator Game
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to the game
	Creating data stores
		Getting keys for our data stores
		DataManager functions
		DataManager events
	Implementing server scripts
		Implementing leader stats
		Implementing monetization scripts
		Implementing character upgrades
		Claiming orbs
		Implementing rebirths
		Selling orbs
	Programming GUIs
		Programming the SideButtons GUI
		Programming the Rebirthing GUI
		Programming the DeveloperProducts GUI
		Programming the GamePasses GUI
		Programming the Upgrade GUI
	Updating your game
	Summary
		Index
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