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Coding Roblox Games Made Easy

You're reading from   Coding Roblox Games Made Easy The ultimate guide to creating games with Roblox Studio and Lua programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800561991
Length 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zander Brumbaugh Zander Brumbaugh
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Roblox Development
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Roblox Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Knowing Your Work Environment 4. Section 2: Programming in Roblox
5. Chapter 3: Introduction to Roblox Lua 6. Chapter 4: Roblox Programming Scenarios 7. Chapter 5: Creating an Obby 8. Chapter 6: Creating a Battle Royale Game 9. Section 3: The Logistics of Game Production
10. Chapter 7: The Three Ms 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating variables and conditionals

In programming, a variable is a way for your code to hold various types of data, or data types. Variables are convenient because when you create one, you can give it an identifier so that it may be easily referenced later. In most programming languages, these variables are typed; this means that the type of variable must be declared when it is created. If you were to create a variable that holds a number, for example, you could only assign data that is a number to that variable. In Roblox Lua, variables are not typed; if you were to initialize a variable as a number, you could later set it to anything else without issue.

Important note

It should be noted that there is a new option for a typed version of Lua, though it is currently in beta, and not available to the general public.

It is important that you know what the most common data types are before you begin programming.

Data types

Integers are any whole, real number within a 64...

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