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Lua Quick Start Guide: The easiest way to learn Lua programming
by 作者: Gabor Szauer
ISBN-10 书号: 1789343224
ISBN-13 书号: 9781789343229
Publisher Finelybook 出版社: Packt
Publisher Finelybook 出版日期: 2018-07-27
Pages: 202
Book Description
Lua is a small,powerful and extendable scripting/programming language that can be used for learning to program,and writing games and applications,or as an embedded scripting language. There are many popular commercial projects that allow you to modify or extend them through Lua scripting,and this book will get you ready for that. This book is the easiest way to learn Lua. It introduces you to the basics of Lua and helps you to understand the problems it solves. You will work with the basic language features,the libraries Lua provides,and powerful topics such as object-oriented programming. Every aspect of programming in Lua,variables,data types,functions,tables,arrays and objects,is covered in sufficient detail for you to get started. You will also find out about Lua's module system and how to interface with the operating system.
After reading this book,you will be ready to use Lua as a programming language to write code that can interface with the operating system,automate tasks,make playable games,and much more. This book is a solid starting point for those who want to learn Lua in order to move onto other technologies such as Love2D or Roblox.
A quick start guide is a focused,shorter title that provides a faster paced introduction to a technology. It is designed for people who don't need all the details at this point in their learning curve. This presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know.
Contents
1: INTRODUCTION TO LUA
2: WORKING WITH LUA
3: TABLES AND OBJECTS
4: LUA LIBRARIES
5: DEBUGGING LUA
6: EMBEDDING LUA
7: LUA BRIDGE
8: NEXT STEPS
What you will learn
Understand the basics of programming the Lua language
Understand how to use tables,the data structure that makes Lua so powerful
Understand object-oriented programming in Lua using metatables
Understand standard LUA libraries for math,file io,and more
Manipulate string data using Lua
Understand how to debug Lua applications quickly and effciently
Understand how to embed Lua into applications with the Lua C API
Authors
Gabor Szauer
Gabor Szauer graduated from Full Sail University with a bachelor's degree in game development. He has been making video games professionally since 2010. He has worked on games for the Nintendo 3DS,Xbox 360,browser-based games,as well as games for iOS and Android. Gabor loves to teach,especially game development and programming. He has previously written the Game Physics Cookbook and is looking forward to producing much more content for those who want to learn
