Godot 4
hi! I try to learn godot since january, and I have got to a point where I feel stuck, so I would like to ask for resources or any advice on how to move forward. I am an artist so coding is not really my strong suit. I learnt GDscript from “GDScript fundamentals” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itKLmCwGeNs&list=PLJ690cxlZTgL4i3sjTPRQTyrJ5TTkYJ2_ but I don’t think I understand everything. I still strugle with applying this knowledge into my projects, so I would apreciate any kind of help!
Hi, I’ve spent 4 years teaching coding to high school students. Here’s some advice when working on your own, for getting the most out of tutorials and such:
- Make sure you understand all the code from the tutorial. A good exercise you can do is take some code you’ve written based on a tutorial, and then writing a comment for every single line of code explaining in your own words what is happening. This means that if there’s something going on you’re not entirely sure about, you’ll have to look it up.
- Experiment! If you’re not sure how something works, try to form a hypothesis, and do experiments to determine whether you were right.
- Make changes to the tutorial projects. For example, if a tutorial just taught you about collision detection in order to pick up coins or something like that, try to add another thing to the game that also has collision detection, but does something slightly different. If a tutorial teaches you how to make the character jump, you can try to use similar techniques to make the player do some other movement, like a dash - and so on, every time you learn a new technique from a tutorial, try to find some additional way you can apply it.
- Don’t be discouraged when you bump into problems. It’s quite normal when coding to run into things you don’t know how to solve and be stuck for a while. If there are error messages, it can be helpful to read them carefully and learn how to interpret them. If you get completely stuck, you can always ask for help on forums like this one, but it’s good practice to spend a while trying on your own first. When you do ask for help, try be as thorough as you can with explaining the problem and what you’ve already tried - sometimes writing it out can help you think of new things to try as well!
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Thanks! It’s quite helpful advice! 
