Lua - General

Lua module U050

Lua - General

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module U050. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only

Background

Lua's a great little language with a very open license that gives you freedom to use it in many ways without royalty issues. It's very popular in the gaming world, but it's far from limited to that arena!

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
3724	Learning to Program in Lua - public / open training course / class Yesterday was the first day of our public "Learning to progam in Lua" course. Lua is an open source language, with a very open license indeed which allows it to be incorporated into other products without raising complex onward licensing issues even if the resultant product isn't itself open source. ...	2012-05-12
3528	December courses - PHP, Python, Perl - and a weekend Lua course Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It's good and has a very open license so you can use it widely - even within your commercial products - at no cost. That's made it very popular across a wide range of applications. We've offered public Lua courses for several years, ...	2011-11-27
2947	Teaching Lua to a Perl advocate It seems the rest of the class thinks I'll find Bill a tough case. Bill (not his real name) is a Perl fan - there's so much you can do, so shortly, in Perl. He's a great regular expression fan and he's got a real comfort with that. If you described him as a bit of a "stick in the mud" - happy with ...	2010-09-07
2309	Lua training class in Spanish "Can't wait to hear how you're getting on". "Keeping an eye on your blog". A couple of messages from folks wondering how I'm getting on with my Lua course in Guadalajara, Mexico, this week. The answer will be brief. I'm enjoying the course, the delegates are getting a lot from it (THAT is the ...	2010-06-28
2555	Bookkeeping It's incredible just how much time bookkeeping takes - small adjustments to the various resources we have, tidying up modules that are no longer relevant and pointing any visitors at replacements. There' been a lot of that going on over the last couple of days ... for example: 1. I have deleted two ...	2009-12-29
2504	Learning to program in ... These are bullet point topics to accompany the "Learning to program in ..." days which are available to complete novices in front of Well House Consultants programming courses. The day is presented using examples in PHP, Lua, Python, Ruby, C, C++, Tcl, Java or Perl as appropriate, with examples written ...	2009-11-29
2492	Lua Classes - open enrolement Advert - Extra Course! I've just scheduled an extra Lua course - running from 19th (Thursday) to 22nd (Sunday) of November, on Lua. It's "last minute" which means that the group of delegates will be a small one and you'll get plenty of personal attention to YOUR application and requirements. Venue ...	2009-11-08
2331	Certification Revisted - Lua I happened upon a "should you be certified" thread relating to Lua while browsing for quite other Lua topics ... it's here, and the initial post appears to provide a reasonable, if admittedly tilted, set of arguments in favour of certification. As it freely admits, "we're looking to set up certification, ...	2009-08-10
2318	For Lua Programmers AND for Town Planners I'm always happy to be able to make multiple use of the same piece of work, and so it is with an example written last week. READ THIS SIDE ... if you are a Lua or game programmer I was asked to provide an exercise during the Lua course that related to game playing - where a series of elements (of ...	2009-08-04 (longer)
2315	New Lua Examples - for last weeks delegates When I train you, I promise that when I leave (an onsite course) or you leave (a course at Well House Manor), that won't be the last you hear or see of me if you wish for further help. For the Lua group in this course photo, who's course I finished on Thursday, I have already written and blogged a couple ...	2009-08-02
2227	Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses The following programming courses are all booking well, but still have good availability: PHP - starting 6th July Ruby - starting 14th July Lua - starting 10th August Python - starting 17th August Also Deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP/Perl) from 20th July. Can be taken as separate Linux ...	2009-06-11

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Examples from our training material

tap.lua	include file to load data and functioanllity
town_sim.txt	Specification for town simulation exercise, and data
town_simulation	Main program - town simulation exercise
towns.lua	Town simulation - town type definitions
towns_about	Overview of Town Simulation example
towns_output	Town Simulation - the program outputs ...

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

What is Lua?
What is Lua used for?
What sort of language is Lua?
Is Lua the right language for me?

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