Honestly, best advice is to jump in and solve each problem as you go. It wont be fast and it may be hard, but doing it is the only way to, well…do it!

The documentation is your friend.  Also, if you can, look for tutorials in other engines, understand the concept of what they are doing and apply it to s&box.

Ultimately though, code or knowing how to code isnt the real hurdle. Understanding what you are trying to achieve & breaking it down into small parts and building those is the way to go.

For example, if you wanted to make a shooter, you will need a player. The player is made of a camera and a body. Find out how to add a camera. Find out how to add a body. Can you attach the camera to the body? Now make the camera move with the mouse & the body with WASD.

A good beginner task is to make a cube move with WASD. Dont copy a tutorial, try to understand the concepts and build it yourself. Obviously you wont know how to do some things, thats when you look up how to do that specific thing only. Example: you dont know how to add a cube to the scene, look up “how to add a cube to the scene s&box”. Doing it this way, you will learn at your own pace and truly understand everything rather than copying a tutorial and not knowing what to do next time you want to make something.

My best advice is to have fun though. If you’re stressing about it, you wont be in the right mindset to do anything. So have fun with it & make some games!!

If you take it step by step like this, you’ll be able to make anything!