2013
Pluralsight
John Sonmez
2h 50m
English
Lua is an extremely versatile and popular programming language that you’ll find embedded in many other applications like Adobe’s Lightroom or even World of Warcraft. Many developers are surprised to find that even very popular games like Angry Birds are written in Lua. In this course, you’ll learn how to quickly get started writing programs and scripts with Lua. I’ll take you through the basics of Lua, show you some tricks that demonstrate the Lua’s flexibility and even show you how to use Lua in an object oriented way. We’ll start off in this course by learning a bit about Lua itself and Lua’s history, as well as learn how to download Lua and use the popular SciTE IDE for creating and running Lua code. After we are setup and ready to develop some Lua code, we’ll learn the basics of Lua as we jump right in and build our first application. We’ll go over Lua’s type system and learn how to assign variables, utilize operators, use conditional logic and create loops. Once we’ve got the basics covered, we’ll explore two powerful concepts in Lua: functions and tables. We’ll learn how functions work in Lua and what makes them so powerful, and we’ll see how tables can be used for more than just storing simple data. Even though Lua itself doesn’t have a class construct, we’ll learn how to do object oriented programming in Lua using tables and metatables. Finally, we’ll wrap up the course by learning a little bit about the standard libraries that come with Lua. I’ll show you some examples of using some of the most useful functions in the standard libraries and show you where you can get more information about them.
01. Introduction
01. Introduction.wmv
02. Who this Course is For.wmv
03. What this Course Covers.wmv
04. What is Lua 1.wmv
05. Qualities of Lua.wmv
06. History.wmv
07. Where Lua is Used.wmv
08. Lua Example.wmv
09. Getting Lua.wmv
10. Hello World Interpreter.wmv
11. Hello World IDE.wmv
12. Up Next.wmv
02. Variables, Expressions, Statements, Blocks
01. Introduction.wmv
02. Guess My Number Game.wmv
03. Types.wmv
04. Variables and Assignments.wmv
05. Assignment Demo.wmv
06. Getting a Random Number.wmv
07. Getting a Guess.wmv
08. Expressions.wmv
09. Operators.wmv
10. Using Operators.wmv
11. If Then Else.wmv
12. Too High or Too Low.wmv
13. Loops.wmv
14. Using a Numeric For Loop.wmv
15. Guessing Until Right.wmv
16. Using Break.wmv
17. Blocks and Scope.wmv
18. Adding Scope.wmv
19. Up Next.wmv
03. Functions and Data Structures
01. Introduction.wmv
02. Functions.wmv
03. Creating a Simple Function.wmv
04. Variadic Functions.wmv
05. Refactoring to a Variadic Function.wmv
06. Count Strings.wmv
07. Using Functions.wmv
08. Simple Calculator.wmv
09. Closures.wmv
10. Creating an Iterator.wmv
11. Tables.wmv
12. Student Scores.wmv
13. Table Tips.wmv
14. Tables as Arrays.wmv
15. Other Data Structures.wmv
16. Up Next.wmv
04. Object Oriented Code Organization
01. Introduction.wmv
02. How OO Works in Lua.wmv
03. Metatables.wmv
04. Metamethods.wmv
05. Creating a Superstring.wmv
06. Defining Add.wmv
07. Adding Reverse.wmv
08. Classes.wmv
09. Creating Calorie Counter.wmv
10. Using a Class.wmv
11. Inheritance.wmv
12. Creating Healthmonitor.wmv
13. Testing Health Monitor.wmv
14. Modules.wmv
15. Creating a Module.wmv
16. Up Next.wmv
05. The Standard Library
01. Introduction.wmv
02. Overview.wmv
03. Basic Library.wmv
04. Loading Code.wmv
05. Loading Data.wmv
06. Basic Library Reference.wmv
07. String Library.wmv
08. String Find.wmv
09. Matching.wmv
10. Table Library.wmv
11. Stack and Queue.wmv
12. Sorting.wmv
13. Math Library.wmv
14. IO Library.wmv
15. Writing to a File.wmv
16. Reading Files.wmv
17. OS Library.wmv
18. Debug Library.wmv
19. Lua's C Integration.wmv
20. The End.wmv
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