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.