The Lua programming language : training courses : Well House Consultants

Welcome to Well House Consultants' website. We offer training courses in a variety of Open Source subjects, including Lua, which is the technology that we're covering on this page. Please follow one of the links at the top of the page if you're looking for another of our technologies.

Courses run at our own training centre in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. Because many of our subjects are niche, we also provide overnight accommodation in our own hotel rooms within our training centre, and you may book the course and accommodation as a single package.

We run public courses, each of which is scheduled to run from 3 to 9 times per year, and on which we accept bookings from different organisations and individuals who wish to learn about Lua following our published agenda. Public courses are all written by ourselves, lead by our own tutor, and limited to just eight delegates per course so that the tutor has plenty of time to answer any questions that arise, and provide personal support during practical sessions.

We also run private courses for individual companies / organisations. Private courses are scheduled to suit our client's needs, and can run at our training centre or at customer premises almost anywhere in the world. Because our course materials are written by ourselves and modular, we can tailor private courses to suit our client's needs.

Public Lua courses offered:

Learning to Program in Lua (4 days)
Lua Programming (3 days)

The Lua programming language

Lua is a language with a small footprint, and one that's distributed under a very flexible Open Source license. Which makes it ideal for integration into a wide variety of products from computer games to virus detection products, in which it provides the users with the ability to tailor the software to their own needs.

At Well House Consultants, we run:

• a 4 day public Lua course for delegates who are new to programming, to give them a good grounding on the fundamentals of programming and in particular how it is applied to Lua.

• a 3 day public Lua course for delegates who are already programmers in another language, to give them a good grounding on the fundamentals of Lua.

If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn Lua at the same time, a Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we can also run a Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to meet your requirements - for example, we can extend the coverage of topics beyond those on the public course. Please contact us to discuss the detail of what you need.

Lua was created in 1993 by members of the Computer Graphics Technology Group at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. It is a 'multi-paradigm' language, with a small set of general features that can be extended to fit different problem types, rather than providing a more complex and rigid specification to match a single paradigm. This means that it's especially important to plan your programming and the techniques you use in Lua, using its flexibility to make coding appropriate in each case.