How to start learning Godot

DaniTD

I have no idea

cybereality

This is a really good book on the topic.

Sosasees

cybereality i can't see the book

DaniTD

what book

cybereality

Godot Engine Game Development Projects: Build five cross-platform 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.0

Pixophir

Neither can I because of my browser's settings (tracking- and ad-blocker).

It is this book.

C. Bradley, Godot Engine Game Development Projects, packt pub 2018

There is also https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/

A haystack of videos on youtube, possibly others.

cybereality

Strange, but I guess if you are running some ad-blocker, then you kind of did it to yourself.

Tomcat

I suggest to start studying Godot with the official documentation.

cybereality Strange, but I guess if you are running some ad-blocker, then you kind of did it to yourself.

Decent browsers (e.g. from COMODO) come with a built-in ad-blocker.

newmodels

The book looks like a good start. Paid education usually is better than free sources, but not always.

Tomcat

Godot is developing very fast. The book may contain (contains) outdated information.

DaniTD

ok maybe it wasn't specific enough
i want to know where do i start learning Godot?
what should be the first thing i should learn?
i already know some of the UI stuff
but should i got to learn to code or something else?

DaveTheCoder

If you don't know how to code, you should learn that first.

Tomcat

The official documentation tells it all step by step. There's a lot about programming in there too. If you don't do 3D, you can skip the relevant section.

DaveTheCoder

Someone who doesn't understand basic programming concepts (variables, constants, data types, expressions, control structures, functions, classes) will have a lot of trouble understanding the official documentation.

Tomcat

DaveTheCoder Someone who doesn't understand basic programming concepts (variables, constants, data types, expressions, control structures, functions, classes) will have a lot of trouble understanding the official documentation.

In my opinion, and I have minimal programming experience, you could even say no experience, the basic concepts are very well laid out there. Probably this documentation is even a good starting point for learning how to do programming.

DaveTheCoder

Tomcat Maybe. It's been a long time since I learned programming. I suppose people learn in different ways.

the_maven

1st - The Godot Docs - read the manual is the best thing ever.

2nd - In the Project Manager, when you start Godot, go to Asset Library Projects and install some assets and look how they work.
Create a new project and toy with the asset project to see what happens.

3rd - Youtube:
ExtraCredits : Minimum Viable Product; Basics How Start Your Game Development
Godot Tutorials
GDQuest
Kids Can Code

cybereality

This is a good book to learn programming if you've never coded before. It's in Python, which is similar to GDScript. If you don't know how to code, it may be difficult making a game, even with tutorials, as they expect some baseline knowledge. So this is a good place to start.

Learn Python in One Day and Learn It Well by Jamie Chan

Nerdzmasterz

I made a beginner friendly tutorial here, and it was recent:

https://godotforums.org/d/30062-indie-devs-best-practices/64

Plus, mine is free. I'm not making tutorials for money, I don't want beginners to fall into the same issues that I have when I started out, which made me run from game engine to game engine until I finally figured things out. It was as bad as I'm making it sound. If you have any problems following it, feel free to post questions on the forum.

fire7side

Really, all you need to do is type in godot tutorials for beginners and pick something out that looks interesting. Just type in the code and don't copy and paste and it will start to make sense. If you don't understand something, just do a search for that particular thing, and you can always post questions on the forum.