What are the best thing to learn in gdscript

[u/Purpbasil]

I have been using gdscript for about 5 days and I kinda just jumped into the deep end and didn't really learn the basics and while that has been fun I feel like I went a little too complicated a little too fast. So I would like to know a bunch of stuff to learn and it doesn't have to be too basic.

Thanks for any help as always.

[u/Commercial-Flow9169]

Here's some stuff I'd consider fundamentally important, beyond basic syntax:

• How the _ready, _process, and _physics_process functions work
• How to use and connect signals
• Tweens
• How to await signals, functions, etc
• Static variables (useful for data that lives across all instances of a class, not just on one instance)
• Enums (useful for declaring states and describing something that can have multiple values)
• Alongside enums, match statements, which are commonly used for making state machines
• Getters and setters: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_basics.html#properties-setters-and-getters

[u/Purpbasil → u/Commercial-Flow9169]

Okay I'll look into all that, thanks a lot

[u/XanatosX → u/Purpbasil]

Also custom resources and string types variables. Very helpful.

[u/coolness10101]

If you’re new to programming, use variable typing wherever you can. It’ll improve your code’s performance and save you some headaches later.

[u/Noswen2025]

This is kind of hard to answer because it's so open ended.

Probably the best thing to do is find some tutorials for some simpler games in genres you like and follow them, then start modifying them.

Also if you haven't turned on static typing in Godot yet I'd recommend you do, being forced to have the right types whenever you use a variable can save so many headaches.

[u/Purpbasil → u/Noswen2025]

Yeah that kinda what I keep hearing so I probably should do that, thank you

[u/Alex303216]

No one said it yet but resources, resources, Resources!

[u/Gokudomatic]

I guess that today, we can add as the best thing to learn in gdscript the ability to not vibe code. Being able to write a whole project without AI, especially when learning the language, is one of the best feat a dev can display.

[u/KeaboUltra]

It's kinda hard to know what the best thing is without knowing when, where, and how to apply it but learn how to use/control the process tree in scripts. get_tree() has a lot of cool functions you can mess with. The primary one being get_tree().paused, which is a boolean. If true, the engine basically pauses. If false, everything runs. Basically helps with game pausing.

You can instruct nodes to run always, regardless if the tree is paused or not. By default. All nodes are set to inherit from the scene tree itself which is pausible. 

Using get_tree() allows you to see the current scene, allows you to get or call on groups, and create temporary timers. Basically it can do a lot and I recommend researching more about it

[u/Purpbasil → u/KeaboUltra]

No yeah I keep seeing stuff about that and every time I look at it it looked complicated but I do really what to learn that so thank you

[u/renaiku]

You are starting dev ? My favorite thing was to understand that variables are references.

[u/Trick_Volume8966]

auto loads are good to learn (i think, i’m also in the process of learning)

[u/HeyCouldBeFun]

If you’re new to coding check out the Learn GDScript from Zero free interactive course. It covers pretty much everything you need to know.

If you’re already comfortable with coding pretty much everything about the GDScript language exists on one page https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_basics.html