Lua Programming: Complete Course (Updated 1/2020)

What you'll learn

Programming in Lua 5.3.
Solve problems using Lua.
Game development using Lua.

Requirements

Basic programming skills in any programming language.

Description

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Topics covered in the course are:

Introduction to Lua

IDE and installation

Basic Language Constructs

Numbers

Strings

Tables

Functions

Input/Output

Blocks and Loops

Closures

Pattern Matching

Date and Time

Bitwise Operations

Data Structures in Lua - Arrays, Matrices, Linked Lists, Queues

Modules and Packages

Iterators and generic for

Metatables and Metamethods

Object Oriented Programming

The Environment

Garbage

Coroutines

C API

So, let's dive into the course

Who this course is for:

Software developers, students, machine learning engineers.