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This curriculum has been devised and refined over the duration of two years of teaching. It provides an outline of everything we'll teach you and in what order.

However — we will always be happy to answer requests for custom topics or going astray!

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Table Of Contents

Curriculum

M1- Basics

• Roblox Studio Basics
  • Console and Explorer
  • Creating, editing and viewing scripts
• Printing
  • Basic syntaxial concepts ()
  • Script Lines, and order of operation.
• Evaluation
  • Mathematical operators: add, minus and divide
  • Comments and multi-line comments
• Timed Yielding
  • wait(t)

M2 - Variables

• Getting Started with Variables
  • Creating local variables
  • Using variables in evaluation
    • Printing variable values
    • Using existing variables in new declarations
• Naming Conventions
  • camelCase formatting

M3 - Game Instances

• File Paths and Navigation
  • Windows file explorer paths (similarities / metaphor)
  • URL structures and formats (similarities / metaphor)
• Working with Instances
  • Understanding full instance names (game.Wor..)
  • Using instance names in code
  • Reading instance properties
  • Modifying instance properties
• Value Manipulation
  • Basic value incrementing
  • Modifying instance properties

M4 - Functions

• Understanding Functions
  • Core purpose and use cases
  • Common pitfalls without functions
• Working with Arguments
  • Parameters and argument passing
  • Argument scope within functions
  • Practice with addNumbers() example
  • Using camelCase naming convention
• Return Values (Advanced Optional)
  • Basic return statements
  • Multiple returns

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Checkpoint

• Advanced functions, that take instances and adjust their properties to complete some sort of job.
  • MakeInvisible(Part)
  • MakeInvisibleFor(Part, Time)

The student must be able to complete the above with very little support in order to progress.

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M5 - Booleans & Selection

• Boolean Values
• Selection
  • Conditions
  • If
  • Else
  • Else-If

M6 - Events

• Methods
• Destroy
• FindFirstChild
• The use of a colon (:) in method invocation
• Sensors / Events
  • RBXScriptSignals
  • Connection and basic usage
• Built-in RBXScriptSignals
  • BasePart.Touched -> Hit
  • ClickDetector.MouseClick -> Player
    • Player Instance
• Exemplar Obby
• Anonymous functions.

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M7 - Tables, Arrays and Dictionaries.

M8 - Iteration