Bukkit Coding - Learning

Hell yeah. 

From my experience I started developing TFM and looked at other commands but I did not copy paste it. I observe and memorize the codes and letters and or numbers for that command and I try to type it in myself. I see how commands are made and I try myself.

Then I got interested in what Java can do so I went to code academy and learned

I then got interested in bukkit plugins so I watched some YouTube videos and I tried doing it and it was fun because it's YOUR OWN plugin that YOU can customize yourself and do anything with it. It was very fun experimenting and testing what the Bukkit API can do. 

I would suggest to learn Java first then trying out things and proceed to harder tasks. Though I learned Java by TFM. 

Just don't stress out, be creative and fun and don't me too much dedicated. Experiment on things first and see if it works out, if it doesn't try fixing it and then adding more and more stuff. If you're confident then do harder stuff! Good luck 

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I learned from YouTube videos, mostly pogostick29dev. A new source would be TheSourceCode www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdnyVeMcpY79UFZFfqwaXF2GUGc0v3YyG

I also study source code and rebuild until I understand it.

Hope I'm not too late to reply, but I do have some great places and sources to start, and I thought I might share my ways I learnt how to make Java plugins. If you haven't learnt Java, I believe it was said above; check out TheNewboston's channel. You don't have to learn all of it fully; just some basic knowledge of it as said above since Steven has highlighted that out. After you are likely to now know how to read and understand the way and structure Java coding works, there are now other options: some other methods I learnt Java is, after watching some tutorial videos, if you just don't feel like watching videos and prefer to do "homework" (i.e. self-learning), you might want to consider reading some Java coding yourself, and when it comes to developing Bukkit, you might want to check out some source code of open sourced Bukkit plugins (or TFM on Github); reading and visually understanding how code works (but not copying and pasting) also seems to be a common way that most visual learner users such as me around here learn how to use Java for Bukkit plugins.

If you aren't a visual learner but prefer to watch tutorial videos, no worries, I got some other good sources to help you out with. For learning how to actually create the Bukkit plugins with Java, I'd recommend you watch some tutorial videos by Pogo and {TheSourceCode}; they both do good Bukkit plugin tutorials. I hope all this information was helpful.


Edit: Here's the link to all the channels I suggested to you
Thenewboston - Java tutorial channel
Pogo - Bukkit tutorial channel
{TheSourceCode} - Bukkit tutorial channel

Defintally learn Java first. Bukkit/Spigot is no joke just icing, learning java can help you even when you quit minecraft, and I personally thing it's easier to go from learning java syntaxes to bukkit, instead of bukkit to java.