The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World! (Unofficial Roblox Series) Paperback – March 12, 2019

The media could not be loaded. This coding book by Heath Haskins says, "Advanced", but it really encompasses basics and then he demonstrates how to incorporate it into your own game. The first few chapters will go over functions, variables, loops and other terminology someone who is just learning to script will need to know. The next in the book is scripting those functions in to creating teleports by using CFrame, power ups, blocks that will damage a player and blocks that heal the player. If you are familiar with the simulator type games that a player can be given a pet, this book teaches you how to script an object to follow a player. Once he covers the basics and some functioning scripts that are great to use in a game he will help you make your first game.Your first game is an obby that he will give you a tutorial on how to build models and union parts, script models to move and parts to fall or damage. The book shows how to create a "controller script". This script will be able to add background music, Gui messages for the player, as well as, award the player a badge for completing the obby. This chapter teaches you how to have a NPC start a sound that is a dialogue to the game. After the dialogue the script will add a "pointlight" to the player to help him/her navigate the obby. The end of the book helps you with an on-going problem all developers have and that is exploiters/hackers. You will learn remote events, filtering enabled and create a script that will detect and kick an exploiter out of the game.This book is very easy to understand and follow the directions. The author makes it fun and helps more visual learners, like myself, with many screenshots to help direct you. I highly recommend this book!

This book has helped me a lot! I find it good for people who are new to roblox scripting, and programming in general, up to around an intermediate level. I don’t feel it includes much advanced topics, but some helpful concepts and new practices that help with more advanced projects. It covers the fundamentals, starting from variables, conditional statements, and functions, up to remote events and functions, creating a complete game controller script that handles the entire game you’ll be making, and the in betweens, such as security and best practices. It’s presented in a tutorial-like manner, and is great to follow along with and have a good time reading.In conclusion, if you’re new to roblox scripting and want a complete book to bring you up to date with what you need to know, I highly recommend you check it out

The book doesn’t miss a step! From opening Roblox Studio, to creating a script, the book walks you through it.

I work with code at a professional level and was looking to,understand more avout lua and roblox.This book is well written, concise and helped me,understand the basic concept of how roblox uses the lua language.The book contains easy to read examples of basic programming concepts as well and would be a great resource for anyone beginning to learn basics of programming concepts.It answered many questions I had about lua and gave me a great starting point in understanding the daunting task of building and coding a roblox game.I give it 5 stars because it is easy to read and describes the coding concepts in a way that is detailed enough for beginners and concise enough for professionals.Great job!

My son is into coding and this book has really helped him a lot.

I started learning ROBLOX about a month ago. I have purchased a lot of the ROBLOX books available onAmazon. Most are so old that some of the examples don't work anymore.I just got this book today and read the first 100 pages. It has already answered a lot of the questions thatI still had after looking at the other books. It starts out for a beginner and later chapters are advanced.The author explains everything very well.FYI - the other very good book is the one by DAVID JAGNEAUX - (ultimate ROBLOX book)

Ive been up for about an hour now trying to review a script. It was IDENTICAL to the one in the book and it still didn't run. It can also be confusing at sometimes.

Anyone who says there is an error with the codde is mistaken. All of the code is up to date, and if you have a sytax error and are complaining you are likley a beginner. You will get a syntax error if you incorrectly spell something, or if you use capital letters where you should not, as lua is case sensetive. All in all this book is good for beginners but not so good for advanced programmers as the title falsley claims. Nevertheless advanced scripters could learn from this and should be able to easily understand it.