About the Author Genevieve Johnson is the senior instructional designer for Roblox, the world’s largest user-generated social platform for play. In her role, she oversees creation of educational content and advises educators worldwide on how to use Roblox in STEAM-based learning programs. Her work empowers students to pursue careers as entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers. Prior to Roblox, Johnson was educational content manager for iD Tech, a nationwide tech education program that reaches more than 50,000 students yearly, ages 6-18. While at iD Tech, she helped launch a successful all-girls STEAM program, and her team developed educational content for more than 60 technology-related courses, teaching a variety of subjects from coding to robotics and game design.
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Perfect for beginners---learn all the skills and techniques you’ll need to code your own Roblox experiences. - Learn the building blocks of code and how it can make your experience come alive
- Code with properties, variables, functions, if/then statements, and loops
- Organize information using arrays and dictionaries
- Work with events to make things move, explode, count down, and do whatever you can imagine
- Keep your code manageable with abstractions and object-oriented programming
- Store data permanently to create leaderboards, inventories, and custom currency
- Use raycasting to allow visitors to place their own objects, such as furniture and props, within your world
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For the burgeoning developer looking to take their skills to the next level and deepen their understanding of virtually every facet of Roblox experiences - Build immersive natural environments using built-in terrain and lighting tools
- Model and import assets, models, weapons, and textures
- Code game mechanics, animations, and camera movement
- Design GUIs for store fronts, player HUDs, and interactive elements
- Teleport players between multiple experiences
- Publish your experience to multiple platforms with cross-platform play
- Attract visitors, monetize your experience, and earn real cash
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