Hi, I downloaded Unreal Engine this morning and I’m not sure where to start.
I’ve done some enthusiast / hobby level programming in C++ with SDL2, and was able to develop a simple sideways scroller (like Defender but with layered parrallax scrolling backgrounds).
I’m hoping to use Unreal to develop a small 3D indy game.
Can someone suggest the best begginner tutorials to get me started?
Is YouTube the place to go, or do I need to invest in a structured online course?
hello and welcome to the forum.
i hope you’re not a bot.
you can do it however you like.
there are multiple posts in the forum asking the same, so i’d recommend you do a bit of a search
there’s a whole “learning” category just to the left. those usually are good content. check the “courses” and “learning paths”
there’s also official courses for free in coursera. check them out. (coursera is a bit deceptive and tries to make you buy the courses, but i promise you can do them for free, just hit “audit”)
personally my best recommendation is to do projects. tutorials and such don’t really teach, and your motivation will drain really quickly. doing small tiny hiper focused almost boringly trivial projects is the best in my experience.
then you keep making bigger and bigger projects. that’s all.
if you think something is small, is not. reduce it. then reduce it again. then again. then maybe start with that.
Thank you, and no, not a bot 
I did spend a couple of hours yesterday reading some of the Foundational Knowledge articles within the Documentation section of this website.
I then looked for an absolute begginers guide / tutorial in the Learning section, but without much luck.
I did find some videos titled “Your First Hour in Unreal Engine 5.0 / 5.2”, but this content appears to have been removed.
Perhaps they were considered too out of date, but I couldn’t find updated versions.
I remember when teaching myself C++, one of the biggest challenges to getting started was just learning to use Visual Studio and configuring the compiler.
I’m very much back at this first stage with the Unreal Engine environment.
I’m sure you are right and I will spend some more time looking through the available Learning pages here, and the ones you have suggested - thank you