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In this video, I'm going to complete
the first practice before you,

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just so you see how the practice
system works in the course.

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First, we want to open
Learn to Code with Godot Practices,

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the one with the purple icon.

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So I'll double double click it.

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When you first open it,
you're going to land on the 3D viewport.

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This will change afterwards
once you do the first practice.

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But this is how it goes by default.

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Unlike a normal Godot project,
on the right, you have a new doc,

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GDQuest Practices.

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This one is where you'll open
and manage the practices.

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The first one is in the first chapter:
To Space and Beyond.

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So you can click that to unfold it
and see the corresponding practices.

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In the lesson, it tells us
to do making the ship move,

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so I'm going to click it.

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Instantly it opens a scene in Godot.

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It expands the corresponding directory

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in the bottom left

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and it gives us some information
about the practice, the description,

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the techniques you'll practice,

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a list of tasks
that we have to complete,

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and optional hints.

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Now, typically to complete a practice,

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you need to change the scene
or the scripts in there.

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And then you run the scene
by pressing F6

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and the practice system
will check your code,

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just like the Learn GDScript
app you did before.

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For any check that you don't pass,

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you're going to get
a message on the right,

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an error message,
that will give you some hints

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or information that may help you
complete the practice,

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at least that's the goal.

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Once you're done testing like that,

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you can press F8
to close the running scene.

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We have the description
on the right

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using a fixed velocity,
we need to make the ship move by itself.

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It's the same we did in the lesson.

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The idea is that you reproduce it
in this very first practice,

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just as some kind
of muscle memory training,

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if you want.

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It's taking some small steps.

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As you move forward through the course,

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the practices will become
more and more unique

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and different from the lessons.

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But for the first ones,
we keep it very simple.

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We have the tasks,

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we need to make sure
the ship moves every frame

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at a fixed speed.

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We have to take
the Delta parameter into account

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and use the variable name velocity,

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which we defined for you.

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I'm going to click
the script icon next to the sprite

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to open the script
and there I have a bit of code.

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I have a velocity variable
that's been predefined.

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And you can see we've defined
the process function for you

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and we have the position.

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Now, two things.

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The velocity is set to Vector2.ZERO,
this is equivalent to Vector2(0,0).

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So the ship will not move
even if we use that value.

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So we need to change it.

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Then we need to change
the ship's position.

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First things first,

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I'm going to change
the Vector2 value for my velocity

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and make the ship move.

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Any value that's non-zero should work.

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Then every frame in the process function,

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I'm going to add to my position.

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I'm going to add velocity.

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I can run the scene with F6 to see that,

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well, the first check is not passing

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or I'm not taking Delta into account,
but the other two are.

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And so we get a message
that tells us that

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we're not multiplying
the velocity by Delta

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and that's what we need to do
to make the movement time dependent.

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We're going to multiply
the velocity by Delta,

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run again,

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and now we pass the three checks.

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This completes the practice.

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And so we can choose
to stay and play the scene

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or we can quit
and go back to the editor.

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There, you'll see
the progress bar increased

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and we see a green
check mark next to the practice.

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This gets saved.

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So even if you update to a newer version
of the course, this will be kept.

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Because in the future, we want
to maybe add a couple more practices.

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We might be changing
some existing practices,

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but your progress will not be lost.

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Just one note about that,

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this progress is stored on your computer.

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So if you format your computer,

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you clear the hard drive
or you work from another computer,

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it will not carry on.

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You can find your saved file
by going to Project,

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Open Project Data Folder.

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This is a folder Godot creates for you.

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This is where you put the user saves,
those kinds of things.

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And this is this file progress.tres,
text resource,

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that is used to track your progress.

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So if you want to go on a laptop

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or to continue on another computer,

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you'll want to copy this file over.

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With that, I'll let you do
the first practice yourself.

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Again, it shouldn't be too hard,

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but then you'll be moving on to the other
practices that you'll tackle on your own.

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Best of luck with that.