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Zander Brumbaugh
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Zander Brumbaugh

Zander Brumbaugh is an independent programmer, project manager, and game designer. The games he has made or contributed to have been played more than 300 million times. Some popular titles include My Salon, Power Simulator, Munching Masters, etc. With the games he has created, he has been able to create a successful business while in college; he currently attends the University of Washington and is part of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. At the time of writing, Zander is 19 years old.
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Understanding the client-server model

The client-server model is a distributed communication structure that can be found throughout many fields of computing. In game development, this type of communication is most often used so that the server acts as a provider and verifier for clients who make requests to it. In other words, the server is a computer that is responsible for holding and dispatching information and the client is someone or something (a computer application or a player of your experience in the Roblox sense) that asks the server for information or requests the server to perform some action. In this section, we will learn how to work with both sides of this model as a programmer on Roblox.

Different script types

Since the server and client are separate models with different defined purposes, programming in Roblox requires the use of unique instances from the LuaSourceContainer base class, depending on whether a script is working with the client (local) or with...

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Zander Brumbaugh

Zander Brumbaugh is an independent programmer, project manager, and game designer. The games he has made or contributed to have been played more than 300 million times. Some popular titles include My Salon, Power Simulator, Munching Masters, etc. With the games he has created, he has been able to create a successful business while in college; he currently attends the University of Washington and is part of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. At the time of writing, Zander is 19 years old.
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