Lua Programming: Complete Course [2020]

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Topics covered in the course are:

• Introduction to Lua

• IDE and installation

• Basic Language Constructs

• Numbers

• Strings

• Tables

• Functions

• Input/Output

• Blocks and Loops

• Closures

• Pattern Matching

• Date and Time

• Bitwise Operations

• Data Structures in Lua - Arrays, Matrices, Linked Lists, Queues

• Modules and Packages

• Iterators and generic for

• Metatables and Metamethods

• Object Oriented Programming

• The Environment

• Garbage

• Coroutines

• C API

So, let's dive into the course