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In this lecture, I wanted to have a quick talk with you about why Google, the Roblox Dev Forum, and

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even AI tools like ChatGPT are going to be your best friends when developing.

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You've probably heard people say that the only difference between a junior developer and a senior developer

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is how well they can search for information online.

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And this is true for the most part.

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Googling and searching for information on how to do something is going to be a crucial skill you need

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for developing games.

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Senior developers are not walking encyclopedias, and they do just as much or even more googling than

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junior developers do.

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There is a lot of good information online, and sadly, you're not going to be able to retain all of

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that information in your brain.

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And that's okay.

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This is why we have search engines, the dev forum, and AI tools to assist us when we are programming.

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As an example, we can go to the Help and feedback section in the developer forum.

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We could go to scripting support.

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And if you are having an issue that you weren't able to solve, you could post it here, post your code

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with it, explain the issue that you're having and hopefully someone can come in and help you with your

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problem.

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For example, there's people in here with some different posts like holding mouse but returns false.

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My raycast doesn't hit target player character sometimes.

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How do I bind custom inputs to player movement and all these different questions?

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And there are people here answering these questions to help these other developers out.

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There's also a section in the developer forum called resources.

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And inside of here is a community tutorial section.

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So if you ever wanted to learn how to do something, look in here.

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You can use the search bar and search for specific things in the Community tutorials section.

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For example, somebody made a tutorial how to make a vehicle crash system, how to use somebody's custom

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data store module.

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Let's teach AI to catch exploiters.

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How to make a jump scare.

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There's so much information in here that it's okay for you to go through and learn all of this stuff,

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and maybe you'll eventually learn something that you might want to teach other people how to do it as

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well, so you can create your own community tutorial post to give some content and to give some support

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back into this ecosystem here.

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Researching information online is going to be crucial for game development, and you will need to humble

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yourself a bit and understand that you don't know everything, and you will need help from other people

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to solve your programming problems.

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And let's say you have some code that's giving you a hard time.

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Maybe there's a logical error that you just can't seem to figure out.

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This is where you can ask questions in the Scripting help section of the dev forum to see if anyone

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is able to help you.

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You can even use AI tools like ChatGPT and see if it can solve your problem.

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There are also many discord servers that exist where you can ask for help in solving a specific issue.

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And even my own discord server.

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I have a section where you can create a forum post to get some help with scripting.

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So don't feel ashamed to google stuff because even I google stuff all of the time.

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I'm not going to be able to remember everything.

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And since I'm able to Google information, you bet that I'm going to abuse that to the fullest extent.

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So keep on googling, researching, and scripting.

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There's no shame in doing those things.