Learning how to Learn? Lua inc.

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Hello there!

Since im currently working on a ui for myself that is mainly like dragging addons together, style them to match one look and set kg panels behind them i got realy interested in learning lua. I saw so many amazing stuff made with addons in wow so ye. Enough sayed.

In general i would say i did forgot how to learn. Im "just" 20 years old and of course i did a learn progress in using daylie stuff. For example after starting to use pc's. I went totaly frightened after a blue screen did appear. Like jumping miles away from my pc "please dont exmplode!". Now i can do basicly everything i want to do with pcs, building them modificate them, tweak em and so on. The point is that was a progress that is basicly default by remembering and googeling.

If it comes to lua and mainly the wow api it is something complete different. I just dont get how to learn it. For sure i can read addon codes of existing addons and if i google right i can find every information about lua and the wow api i want so if my mind wouldnt be unable to combine and learn stuff i could be a master in lua after 1 minute. But im a boring, normal human without special learning skills. Even after the inventing of google i properly lost my skill in trying stuff out.

For sure i can try things out and put words together that "sound" logical for me but my skill in sort omsething out by myself nearly died. That sayed i would like to hear something by the "i learned writing addons by myself!" people around here.

If i guess right i have to learn 3 things in general before even start to write my own addon that is just based on my ideas instead of googleing something and modificate a already existing code.

1. The lua syntax.

How would i do that? How did you do that? I mean ye, if i understand what every thing in lua is doing i can get a clue. By the time i spent in forums i learned that bb codes start with [] and end with [/]. I learned how the most bb codes look like and ye this is basicly the syntax. In terms of programming i just know that if i want to use a if statement there has to be at least a then / else statement (if i guess right).

2. The wow api. Even if i know how to write lua properly i wouldnt be able to do anything in wow if i dont know how wow does work with the lua code. I saw a lot of lists explaining the wow api and its functions. Do you guys just google what you want to do and build it in then?

Is it like "okay i know how to create a background in lua and how to border it. Now i want to add a button so lets google "WoW API creating buttons" ?

3. The librarys and other stuff like that.

If i for example want to safe profiles i have to use a library if i guess right. Or if i want to use a 3. party API for World of Warcraft i have to learn it as well.

So that said i would realy appreciate to get some advices in terms of learning a language myself and in which order.