Learn GDScript from Zero with this Free app

[@Gdquest]

It's been a long time, KZbin! We've been absent for months, but as usual, we've not been idle. We made this app, a massive 10-hour course with dozens of interactive practices. That took us months to make. Then we took 3 months to make a paid course. That's how we could make the app in the first place: 1500+ persons pre-ordered the course on Kickstarter. That also allowed us to fund 10,000$+ of Godot development. Since early 2022, we sponsored dozens of bug fixes and new features like a revamped UI for Control nodes, a new animation curves editor, and now a built-in code formatter for GDScript 2.0 (in progress). Lastly, we've been working on two complete translations for our GDScript app: in Spanish and French. The community is already working on more here: github.com/GDQuest/learn-gdscript-translations/ With this chapter closed, I'll be making videos again in the coming months. You can expect at least one per week.

[@boerbol9422]

Bless you. So many people are now able to make their own games thanks to people like you.

[@playertoo9730]

You guys finally did it!!! I can’t wait to start this course with the app!!

[@bodu7776]

You are awesome

[@KlausWulfenbach]

I've been through the whole app and am going through the premium course. Both are quite good.

[@Kolbiathan]

been through the app and made the decision to purchase the full course, really excited to start it!

[@Kolbiathan]

@cat The app is a quick introduction to programming in godot and the full course is much more in depth. They supply godot projects to follow along in that act like the app with checks to see if your code is written correctly. I'm a few chapters in now and its pretty good!

[@thidayithidayi6291]

Can u tell me how to install it,I can only download it.please😢

[@spacepunchgaming6732]

It is insane just how amazing the community around Godot is. Putting this whole thing together to help aspiring developers learn is AMAZING. You guys are amazing.

[@ModBros8434]

I'm glad I discovered this! I've been trying to get a group of my friends into coding. We've been working with Scratch so far, but I was wondering about how I'd bridge the gap from that to a real game engine. This is perfect for such a task! Thank you for your noble work. This will have a great effect on people learning to code. I really can't thank you enough

[@tpbanimations]

So how is your game?

[@lancerhandler]

I've also been working on scratch lol

[@sashetha9548]

Thank you for sharing this resource! I'm about half-way through the course and this has been by far the most approachable one I've encountered. Its hard to digest and truly understand code without applying it in some way and a lot of project tutorials which aim to be beginner friendly, don't go out of their way to really explain why their code works, which makes it very hard to re-apply most of what you learn.

[@Gdquest]

Thanks a lot for writing back about the app. It was a turning point for GDQuest too. When the community helped us fund it, it encouraged us to trust our insights and keep putting a lot of practical value in the learning material we put out. It was also a departure from relying on video tutorials and going more for written content with an interactive approach. The results from this app influenced our teaching method and informed the choices we made on the learning platform we created and launched this year.

[@LisandroLorea]

I used the beta version with students and it was pretty good. This looks a million times better so definitely recommended.

[@Lermer07]

Started learning GDScript yesterday so the timing couldn't be more perfect. This would make a great free game on Steam!

[@stefotheguy2766]

This is fantastic! I`ve been waiting for this course for a while and it`s epic so far!

[@purpledragonofdoom]

This is truely amazing ! I've always been quite afraid to start learning coding because this seems like a huge endeavor (and I prefer making art than coding). I've started making games with RPG Maker so I didn't have to bother with code. Then I switched to Game Maker Studios 2, and I always stuck to the drag and drop system. For quite some time I wanted to use Godot but the visual scripting system never seemed to be really good. Maybe I'll start learning code after all, thanks to you :) Great job guys

[@kkibi]

did you ever do it?

[@pastel114]

I've gone through both the 2d and 3d tutorials thus far and while I did complete them successfully, I found I was struggling to implement it in my envisioned manner. I think a big part of that is due to a lack of practice. An interactive app looks stellar for helping fill this gap in. Thank you!

[@kernium]

I had Godot for about a year and was stuck in tutorial hell because I only did the coding equivalent of "Monkey see: Monkey do.". Now I can finally understand what I am doing and finally start doing projects on my own! Thank you a lot for making this free too, I would have never seen it if it was not the case.

[@bodu7776]

Same

[@jontay4199]

Is this app what helped you cross that bridge? Do you have any other useful tips or resources you would share with me? I’m about a month into that tutorial parrot phase and I already see how it’s slowing me down. Or am I thinking about it wrong, it’s not slowing me down, it’s just part of the process?

[@Gdquest]

@jontay4199 Do you already know how to code?

[@jontay4199]

@@Gdquest I understand very basic programming concepts, but I would say I do not know how to code.

[@Gdquest]

@jontay4199 Try completing thoroughly the free app to learn GDScript (you can find it on gdquest.com), then try the free interactive tour of the Godot editor (also on our site), then give the 2D vampire survivor tutorial a shot. we recently uploaded it on KZbin. After completing it, try expanding on it and customizing some things. That should get you to a good starting point.

[@koromau3854]

Stuff like this is huge for hands on learners, thanks so much for your efforts!

[@tinycastledesigns7110]

I also got the premium course and It's been good so far I work on it a bit everyday. The Learn GD script app was fantastic.

[@Gdquest]

Thanks much for the support!

[@Sulleone]

Thank you so much for this! I really hope this app will help me feel more familiar with Godot since I was feeling rather uneasy trying to learn how to make Godot games compared to Unity where you make an object, drag it, make it rigid and then tinker with the properties. The whole hierarchy system feels very daunting to me

[@user-mf8nu5qe5f]

Oh boy if only there were apps like this for all programming languages

[@lorikoncsik4198]

Omg I was planning to learn some coding, especially gdscript, it's going to be so useful! Thank you so much for making it

[@justvictorgodot]

This thing is a GAME CHANGER. It made me completely understand how gdscript works and it was FUN TO LEARN. More interactive tutorials should be made, they're brilliant at actually teaching things. *_THIS_* is how you teach beginners. If you tell them to read the docs then they'll just quit.

[@Gdquest]

Thanks for the kind words ! 🙂

[@ojodeoro1106]

This content isn't really for me (already a programmer ) but I love the idea and execution. Great work you guys 👏

[@TirzaBoi]

Nice! Its hard to learn without this because gdscript doesent have lots of tutorials.

[@alematt]

I've just started learning and this is going to be super helpful. I have zero experience. Thank you for making something like this!!!

[@Lunartvis]

Thank you so much for making this!! Exactly what I needed

[@KaiserXionTV]

Oh man, I can't wait. I started learning python last winter and have forgotten it all. I'm an HVAC tech so winters are incredibly slow while summers are too busy for anything but work. Hopefully I can get a decent handle by the end of this winter so as to re-learn at the start of next winter and get further lol. P.S. THANK YOU!

[@beuzzzi]

I just bought the 2D course! The reviews are so good that I figured it would be better to start from a structured place instead of smaller tutorials. I'm loving the app so far

[@mutee333]

This is massive! Thank you for doing such a wonderful job!

[@SurealG]

Ive been waiting for this for a while so excited to start

[@MilkBanana]

This resource is revolutionary, thank you so much for your efforts

[@Frequenterable]

Thank you so much for making this. It is incredibly valuable - thank you.

[@norricommander]

I love this! No more following 8+ year old videos that are out of date! 💙

[@THEDEVBOIS]

this was just gold anothr video thas jus needs more attention

[@maxking97]

i love the open source community Thank you :)

[@linaxgamez4636]

This is a big RESPECT to you guys who made the App! this is just amazing

[@LeSingeDeMars]

Congratulations! You have done a wonderful piece of work, you could be proud of yourself! Also, many thanks to all your supporters.

[@GOATED_ARG]

A big salute for you sir...... You are just a God for me

[@felusion6290]

BRO U ARE AMAZIINGGGGGGG! Cant BELEAVE IT RLLY you are the true mast of GODOT

[@5kunk157h35h17]

Thanks for the tutorial. Trying it out now

[@Darknessinged]

Wow! You went far with this! Very good!

[@HoodStrats]

Amazing work. Another invaluable resource for the Godot community.

[@luigi.0533]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@Ianimategoofycharacters]

This is cool and smart because now it's not lacking what unity has a course to learn the programming language.

[@andreiboelter1120]

This sounds really cool!

[@bladze6814]

I'm about to start the course! thank you

[@thephantomx6467]

The app is finally out, epic

[@Crisisdarkness]

Wow this is a tremendous gift I'm excited to use it, thank you awesome team

[@woutblux1998]

I did the whole free course and found it good, but I still had some things that dissapointed me. The simpler lessons are easy to grasp. But some of the harder lessons (like for loops and dictionaries for example) are teached in the same way as if they have the same difficulty level (btw. I had the same issue with a course from another company, so maybe it's a general problem). They should have more examples and different exercises. Also often the exercises are almost the same as the lesson itself, therefore it is easy to remember things (copy tricks) instead of actually learn how to apply the code. I often read the lesson and it made complete sense, but in the exercise I had completelly no idea where to start even after reading all the hints. After looking at the solution it made sense again. I think the course is learning you the concepts, but not (enough) how to do it yourself.

[@Invad3rDiz]

I'm having that issue..

[@Gdquest]

I definitely agree with you on more practice needed. That's a good review. We're planning to improve that as soon as we can spare the time.

[@Invad3rDiz]

@@Gdquest its a great course. i just need to learn, i can make art, designs animations and stuff but coding ooof

[@eeeecca]

this was super helpful thank you lots ♥

[@zippycat]

i might try this out cause i cannot get into gdscript/python/lua cause its a bit out of my comfort zone as im learning c++ and mostly used to its syntax and i dont want to bother with godot c++ builds out there. now ill be able to get into atleast one of these 3 programming languages mentioned earlier (hopefully).

[@darega743]

Words cannot express how grateful I am that this exists.

[@alpixfere]

downloaded, thx so much, it looks really helpful😀

[@camzxlegendary9649]

YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING !!!

[@cryelectric]

This is a really great and important app. We urgently need more tools like this for learning GDScript. Thanks for that. Is there a chance that it will also be published in German?

[@Gdquest]

There was a German translation. It's only that now it is not completely up to date and when we publish the app the languages only are included if over 95 or 98% translated. People can contribute to translations here: github.com/GDQuest/learn-gdscript-translations

[@tywilchallam7899]

Thank you so much GDquest for this app, a sub is all I can thank you with, hope it's good enough

[@thesomeone2nd]

Thx man I wonna start doing this stuff to see if I like it!

[@KamaleshB-kw2po]

this app is very cool i am using it for 15 days

[@sofianchamam]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAA, FINALLY...FINALLY, I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

[@Byron_Vega]

great stuff, keep up the good work!!

[@hussamhk6235]

Thank you for this , its great 😍

[@FallerToon]

Good initiative ! :)

[@ZeroUm_]

When I saw "app" , I was expecting something for mobile, not a desktop app. It does run in a mobile browser, but it clearly wasn't made for it.

[@deadmagnet6318]

DUDE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AND KZbin DOESNT REMIND ME?!!?!?!??!?!

[@jeremiahaemile2008]

thanks man for making the app for free😘

[@chacecampbell2697]

Brilliant work!

[@ukrsolid]

This is just perfect for my kid to learn Play and Learn =)

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

So far very disappointed in the app. I was expecting it to teach me the rules of the syntax so I could write my own solutions to problems, instead it lectured me and expected me to memorize the lecture and regurgitate it during the test. I was able to make my own solutions, but it was because I had watched a different tutorial on Godot first. This, to me, is another lecture-based attempt at "teaching" that doesn't click with me whatsoever.

[@Gdquest]

Would you have more info on what you disliked in particular? What do you mean by syntax rules for instance that's not covered in the app? And at which lesson/practice did you stop? Please mind that this app's designed for people who've never written code before, so there's quite a bit to explain that if you watched tuts and coded before you may know or not care about but that our target audience doesn't know and needs to learn first.

[@MarineMyste]

Holy crap. This is so cool!!!

[@jokerjr.3662]

Could you please make a list with all functions and a short description, what they are for? All the articles are just waisting my time.

[@TackerTacker]

Great job!

[@leonrossa8579]

I love the idea! :)

[@haideralaakamel6332]

thank you so much i hope it help !!

[@Sumer_game_studio]

the course is sooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooooood thank you soooooooooooo much

[@dzmo-official]

Your app is legendary. 6/5 stars

[@jordentacoztm]

Thank you. For real, if you know nothing about code and want to learn like me, the internet tells you to shut up

[@Ignawesome]

Some feedback: I took the GDscript from 0 course a year ago with 0 knowledge about CS and despite it being very informational, after finishing it I felt I hadn't really understood coding. Then I took CS50 and I started to understand how programming works. I think my problem was starting to code using preexisting classes, properties and methods (such as rotate() and move_local_x() ) which I didn't understand where they came from. What's an object, a class, a method and a property and why are some functions "already made" for me to use while I had to write the code for others? How do I read and understand the documentation? It's a super simple concept but the approach from the GD course didn't fill that in for me. Just my 2 cents. If someone is having trouble with the beginning I recommend understanding the fundamentals of object oriented programming to really understand the context of the lessons.

[@Gdquest]

Great that you kept going until you found a way that works for you!

[@_Geist]

thanks for this!!

[@shivm6092]

Lessgoooooo!!!!!!!

[@keepitshort4208]

Sorry for asking a dumb question, is the python very different then gdscript ?I just want to learn something that I can carry forward, I know most say that do c# or c++ but that's a much bigger part of everything I just want to learn for game engine like Godot for now and mostly interested in indie games not triple a

[@pawansharma27]

This is best app

[@yumi-yb2oh]

cool I love godot ill always support godot♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@unmorcipan]

AMAZING!

[@BLZBlazer-rd7zj]

Thank you soo much for making this app, new comers just cant learn gdscript just because they watch a game making tutorial. and with this app I learned soo much things about gdscript, thank you soo much for that. oh btw, can you make this app work on 32 bit versions of windows too, I'm currently using the web version and it's kinda laggy due to the limit of ram I have.

[@thebrioche6481]

Being told in Simple english what is wrong is so nice compared to processing what i began with

[@RhettTheDungeonMaster]

This is a good day and age to be in. I’m 33 pushing 34 and this is like a dream come true.

[@TsapkoAndrii]

Thanks a lot!

[@eternalguy6023]

It's so good movement

[@tenj]

Thank You ❤️

[@brianprivate6990]

You are my hero

[@daniel-chan]

Vocês pretendem colocar a linguagem Português-Brasil nesse curso ? Que tenho bastante dificuldade em aprender inglês e não achei vídeos brasileiros ensinando o GDScript do zero pra quem não sabe nada de programação como eu , e acaba sendo bastante complicado criar um jogo , perdi varias ideias legais de jogos por não saber programar Obrigado pela Atenção!😄 se virem essa mensagem é claro

[@RyngrettGames]

Já colocaram, você sabe se tem um aplicativo para celular?

[@mariazedek1157]

Thank you

[@abymohanan9403]

Do i need a windows or Linux laptop for this coding class, or i just need only the chrome browser 🤷🏻‍♀️, please help me

[@Kiwi-fl8te]

Awesome !

[@יובלהרמן-ח2ד]

I feel really bad for saying it's really amazing what you did!, while at the same time not donating for the cause... when I find a job I will come back..

[@Gdquest]

You don't have to feel bad, we appreciate all support, financial or not. We could raise enough money to make it and pay everyone who worked on this a decent salary, so that's all good.

[@Windowsfan0000]

Tysm!!!!

[@seamushenderson3311]

With access to gpt I can say no. Learn C, learn c# you will be so much more prepared. That said I learned python and GD at the same time first. It's a dive, just dive in... it'll stuck, but just do it

[@piyunaii0]

Thank you omg

[@ovalgames784]

Nice, really cool.

[@pleasantBlue556]

I love you guys

[@DommoDommo]

Does the premium app teach you how to make 3D games?

[@Mad4GT]

there is a bug in part 7 idk if its just my computer(i use mac)but whenever i code something in draw 3 seperate squares it crashes.

[@_Cotton]

Super great course

[@BlendFin]

Thankyou!

[@FuNnY_bOnEs-j5s]

Thanks a lot