Lua Programming - Master the Basics

Name: Lua Programming - Master the Basics
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Learn the fastest and powerful scripting language for games.

Created byEDUmobile Academy

Last updated 4/2018

English

What you'll learn

learn the basics of working with Lua
Understand Conditional Statements and Functions
You will have a beginners knowledge on how to program in Lua

Course content

3 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 7m total length

Course Overview1:37
Learn the basics of Lua syntax, explore conditionals and loops, use tables to mirror other data structures, then write functions and discover libraries and packages.
Introduction to Lua5:56
Learn Lua, a fast, portable scripting language and glue language that interfaces with C and C++, with simple syntax, tables as the core data structure, and a robust standard library.
The Lua standalone interpreter7:02
Learn to run the Lua standalone interpreter on Windows, Mac, and Linux, execute scripts with lua [options] script [args], and use -e, -l, and -i for quick testing.
Demo of the hello.lua script7:34
Create a simple hello Lua script that prints a greeting, uses a shebang, and handles an optional argument from the script’s arg table, demonstrating basic Lua execution.

Control Structure video13:30
Explore Lua control structures, including if-then-else branches and loops while, repeat until, and for (numeric and generic), plus comparison operators and local variables in table iteration with pairs.
Tables video8:38
Understand tables as Lua’s primary data structure, including arrays and dictionaries with mixed key types. Apply dot and bracket notation for access, and construct arrays without holes with table constructors.
Demos video9:31
Learn to run Lua code, parse arguments, and convert strings to numbers with tonumber. Build a square table, compare ipairs and pairs, and use while and length-aware loops.

Function demo video9:01
Learn to declare and define functions, compute averages from a table, and return multiple values, including max and average, with vararg support and time-seeded randomness.
Understand Libraries5:10
Explore Lua's standard libraries, built in C, including basic, module, string, table, math, io, and os, accessed as library.function, with guidance to the Lua 5.3 reference manual and LuaRocks.

Requirements

Knowledge of Any Programming Language is Helpful
Knowledge of C Programming Language is useful
You will have to install binary on your OS

Description

The Introduction to Lua course is a 1 - hour course for beginners. In the course, we'll cover the basics of the Lua programming language. By the end of the course, you should have a beginner's working knowledge of how to program in Lua, so this course will prepare you for using Lua in the way you want to, whether that's modding your favorite games, scripting in your OS of choice, or writing libraries for others to use.

Topics include:

Lua syntax
if..then..elseif..else..end
while and repeat loops
for and for-in loops
tables
functions
the standard library and third party packages

So I hope you join us for this Introduction to Lua.

Who this course is for:

Any Fresher Who Wants to Learn Lua
To Brush Up Your Lua Knowledge

Lua Programming - Master the Basics

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Course content

Introduction & Hello World app4 lectures • 22min

Control Structure & Tables3 lectures • 32min

Conditional Statements & Functions2 lectures • 14min

Requirements

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