In this lecture, I wanted to have a quick talk with you about why Google, the Roblox Dev Forum, and
even AI tools like ChatGPT are going to be your best friends when developing.
You've probably heard people say that the only difference between a junior developer and a senior developer
is how well they can search for information online.
And this is true for the most part.
Googling and searching for information on how to do something is going to be a crucial skill you need
for developing games.
Senior developers are not walking encyclopedias, and they do just as much or even more googling than
junior developers do.
There is a lot of good information online, and sadly, you're not going to be able to retain all of
that information in your brain.
And that's okay.
This is why we have search engines, the dev forum, and AI tools to assist us when we are programming.
As an example, we can go to the Help and feedback section in the developer forum.
We could go to scripting support.
And if you are having an issue that you weren't able to solve, you could post it here, post your code
with it, explain the issue that you're having and hopefully someone can come in and help you with your
problem.
For example, there's people in here with some different posts like holding mouse but returns false.
My raycast doesn't hit target player character sometimes.
How do I bind custom inputs to player movement and all these different questions?
And there are people here answering these questions to help these other developers out.
There's also a section in the developer forum called resources.
And inside of here is a community tutorial section.
So if you ever wanted to learn how to do something, look in here.
You can use the search bar and search for specific things in the Community tutorials section.
For example, somebody made a tutorial how to make a vehicle crash system, how to use somebody's custom
data store module.
Let's teach AI to catch exploiters.
How to make a jump scare.
There's so much information in here that it's okay for you to go through and learn all of this stuff,
and maybe you'll eventually learn something that you might want to teach other people how to do it as
well, so you can create your own community tutorial post to give some content and to give some support
back into this ecosystem here.
Researching information online is going to be crucial for game development, and you will need to humble
yourself a bit and understand that you don't know everything, and you will need help from other people
to solve your programming problems.
And let's say you have some code that's giving you a hard time.
Maybe there's a logical error that you just can't seem to figure out.
This is where you can ask questions in the Scripting help section of the dev forum to see if anyone
is able to help you.
You can even use AI tools like ChatGPT and see if it can solve your problem.
There are also many discord servers that exist where you can ask for help in solving a specific issue.
And even my own discord server.
I have a section where you can create a forum post to get some help with scripting.
So don't feel ashamed to google stuff because even I google stuff all of the time.
I'm not going to be able to remember everything.
And since I'm able to Google information, you bet that I'm going to abuse that to the fullest extent.
So keep on googling, researching, and scripting.
There's no shame in doing those things.