Lua Scripting- Master complete Lua Programming from scratch

Lua Scripting: Master complete Lua Programming from scratch, available at $89.99, has an average rating of 4.68, with 114 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 2103 reviews, and has 9085 subscribers.

You will learn about Lua Scripting Integrate Lua with C and C++ This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner that want to learn how to code with Lua or Professional programmers that want to learn how to embed and use Lua with their C applications or Students that want to learn how Lua is used with Roblox Studio It is particularly useful for Beginner that want to learn how to code with Lua or Professional programmers that want to learn how to embed and use Lua with their C applications or Students that want to learn how Lua is used with Roblox Studio.

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Summary

Title: Lua Scripting: Master complete Lua Programming from scratch

Price: $89.99

Average Rating: 4.68

Number of Lectures: 114

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 114

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 117

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 117

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Lua Scripting

Integrate Lua with C and C++

Who Should Attend

Beginner that want to learn how to code with Lua

Professional programmers that want to learn how to embed and use Lua with their C applications

Students that want to learn how Lua is used with Roblox Studio

Target Audiences

Beginner that want to learn how to code with Lua

Professional programmers that want to learn how to embed and use Lua with their C applications

Students that want to learn how Lua is used with Roblox Studio

Olá!

Welcome to the complete Lua scripting course.

This course will teach you everything you need to know about the Lua scripting language.

We will start from scratch, installing Lua on your platform (Linux, macOS, and Windows), and progress to learn the main aspects of the Lua language. I will use Linux during the videos, but you can easily follow along with any other OS. If by any chance you cannot or do not want to install Lua in your machine, you can use an online website called replit which allows you to run your Lua scripts inside your web browser.

This course is divided into three main parts:

1. The first part is where we will cover the basics of the Lua language. We will learn the fundamentals of programming with Lua using variables, expressions, conditional statements, loops, functions, metatables, and other important commands and modules from the Lua language. This part covers Lua from the beginning to an advanced level, where I try to be super beginner-friendly. You’ll be able to get up to speed even if you never programmed before.

2. The second part of the course is aimed at intermediate-to-advanced programmers that want to learn how to embed Lua within the C programming language.You’ll learn how to embed and expose scripting capabilities to your C code and create a project that controls the movement of a player in C using Lua. If you don’t want or don’t care about integrating Lua with C, you are welcome to skip this section of the course. But this integration with C is one of the most powerful aspects of the Lua language and it is extremely important for professional programmers that want to take their Lua skills beyond the basics.

3. The third part of the course is a set of very short bonus lectures that explain how Lua is used with Roblox Studio. Roblox is a popular game engine that uses a dialect of Lua to script game logic and aspects of the game scene. We will learn how to use the commands we just learned to manipulate objects inside Roblox and also understand the basics of the Roblox Studio interface.

This course is a super complete package about one of the world’s favorite scripting languages. You will benefit from it if you are a beginner or if you are a seasoned developer that wants to discover the power of the Lua language.

Be aware: This is not a course about Roblox! This is a course about the Lua programming language, and the final bonus lectures are just a basic overview of how Lua is used by Roblox developers.

Welcome aboard!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction and Motivations

Lecture 2: A Message for Roblox Users

Lecture 3: History and Language Evolution

Lecture 4: Why do you want to learn Lua?

Chapter 2: Installing and Using Lua

Lecture 1: A Quick Message About Installing Lua

Lecture 2: Using Lua with REPL

Lecture 3: Installing Lua on Linux

Lecture 4: Installing Lua on MacOS

Lecture 5: Installing Lua on Windows

Chapter 3: Course Source Code (Download)

Lecture 1: Source Code (Download)

Chapter 4: Variables and Expressions

Lecture 1: Our First Lua Script

Lecture 2: Variables

Lecture 3: Older Lua Versions and REPL

Lecture 4: Proposed Activity: Variables

Lecture 5: Variables Activity Solution

Lecture 6: Exercises: Variables and Expressions

Lecture 7: Incrementing and Decrementing Variables

Chapter 5: Conditionals and Logical Operators

Lecture 1: Conditionals

Lecture 2: Elseif

Lecture 3: Proposed Activity: Conditional Statements

Lecture 4: Conditionals Activity Solution

Lecture 5: Logical Operators

Lecture 6: Popular Logical Operators

Lecture 7: Exercises: Conditionals

Chapter 6: Strings and Standard Library Modules

Lecture 1: String Manipulation

Lecture 2: Multi-line Strings

Lecture 3: Reading the Contents of a File

Lecture 4: Multiple Assignment

Lecture 5: Standard Library Modules

Lecture 6: Exercises: Strings and Random

Lecture 7: Patterns in String Find

Lecture 8: Special Characters in Lua Patterns

Chapter 7: Loops and Functions

Lecture 1: The For Loop

Lecture 2: The While Loop

Lecture 3: Loop Options

Lecture 4: Variable Scope

Lecture 5: Local Scope and Lua Chunks

Lecture 6: Syntax & Semantic Errors

Lecture 7: Solving Logical Mistakes

Lecture 8: Input Values from the Keyboard

Lecture 9: Handling Input Options

Lecture 10: Different Input Options

Lecture 11: Finding Distance Between Points

Lecture 12: Finding Angle Between Points

Lecture 13: Arctangent Function in New Lua Versions

Lecture 14: Loop Activity Example

Lecture 15: Loop Activity Solution

Lecture 16: Exercises: Loops

Lecture 17: An Introduction to Functions

Lecture 18: Exercises: Functions

Chapter 8: Tables

Lecture 1: Tables in Lua

Lecture 2: Looping Key-Value Pairs in a Lua Entries

Lecture 3: Tables Example

Lecture 4: Proposed Activity: Reading Table Entries

Lecture 5: Table Activity Solution

Lecture 6: Tables as Configuration Files

Lecture 7: Tables as Matrices

Lecture 8: Proposed Formative Project

Chapter 9: Metatables and Object-Oriented Programming

Lecture 1: Moving Forward

Lecture 2: Metatables

Lecture 3: Exercises: Metatables

Lecture 4: Object-Oriented Programming in Lua

Lecture 5: Creating Classes and Objects

Lecture 6: Exercises: Classes and Objects

Chapter 10: More on Lua Functions

Lecture 1: Higher-Order Functions and Closures

Lecture 2: Variadic Functions

Lecture 3: Coroutines

Chapter 11: Integrating Lua with C

Lecture 1: Working with Lua and C

Lecture 2: C Project Folder Structure

Lecture 3: Executing Lua File From C

Lecture 4: Get Lua Global Values in C

Lecture 5: The Stack

Lecture 6: Push Pop and Peak

Lecture 7: Calling Lua Functions From C

Lecture 8: Checking and Handling Script Errors

Lecture 9: Calling C Functions in Lua

Lecture 10: Userdata

Lecture 11: Sending and Receiving Userdata

Lecture 12: Reading Lua Tables in C

Lecture 13: Installing SDL

Lecture 14: Creating a SDL Window

Lecture 15: The Game Loop

Lecture 16: SDL Rendering

Lecture 17: Fixing Our Game Loop Timestep

Lecture 18: Delta Time

Lecture 19: Controlling the Player Movement with Lua

Instructors

Gustavo Pezzi
University Lecturer and co-founder of Pikuma.com

Pikuma .com
Learn computer science and mathematics by programming games

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2 stars: 18 votes

3 stars: 173 votes

4 stars: 691 votes

5 stars: 1201 votes

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