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This book is for students and professionals who are intrigued by the prospect of learning and using a powerful language that provides a rich infrastructure for creating programs. No programming knowledge is necessary to benefit from this book except for the section on Lua bindings, which requires some familiarity with the C programming language. A certain comfort level with command-line operations, text editing, and directory structures is assumed.

You need surprisingly little in the way of computer resources to learn and use Lua. This book focuses on Windows and Unix-like (including Linux) systems, but any operating system that supports a command shell should be suitable. You'll need a text editor to prepare and save Lua scripts.

If you choose to extend Lua with libraries written in a programming language like C, you'll need a suitable software development kit. Many of these kits are freely available on the Internet but, unlike Lua, they can consume prodigious amounts of disk space and memory.

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0470069171
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978-0470069172
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January 26, 2007
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Lua offers a wide range of features that you can utilize to support and enhance your applications. With this book as your guide, you'll gain a thorough understanding of all aspects of programming with this powerful language. It will walk you through the basics, covering everything from installing Lua on your system to developing games and web sites.

Experts Jung and Brown first present the fundamentals of programming and explain standard Lua functions. They then show you how to take advantage of all of the free Lua community resources that are available. Complete code samples are integrated throughout the chapters to clearly demonstrate how to apply the information. Diagrams are also included to highlight important Lua features such as stacks, hash tables, garbage collection, and function closures. All of this will help you to quickly write your own effective programs.

What you will learn from this book

Ways to extend Lua's operators with metamethods
Methods on how to use tables, strings, and modules
How to handle events naturally with coroutines
Techniques for managing information with databases
Tips for handling and avoiding programming errors
Ways to create your own innovative games
How to enhance application development using packages contributed by the Lua community
Steps for presenting dynamic information on your web site

Who this book is for

This book is for beginning programmers, game developers, and web site developers who are interested in a simple yet powerful introduction to programming.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author

Between his first programs submitted to a Burroughs 5500 on Hollerith punch cards and his latest programs tapped into a Palm Pilot, Kurt Jung has been the principal programmer on various projects ranging from airline yield management to state machine–driven workflow.

Aaron Brown began programming in elementary school on a Commodore 64. He plays various musical instruments and speaks Esperanto.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox; 1st edition (January 26, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470069171
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470069172
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.52 x 9.25 inches

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Notsobusymom

Not "beginning" enough.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2014

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Very good but for someone like me, a true beginner, not basic enough. Step-by-step assumes more prior knowledge than I have. Example: step 3 - Open directory. My reaction: Ummm....how?

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Sir Pancreas

An excellent book on Lua

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2013

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This is a fantastic book and one that I find myself re-reading. The strength is in the long-form exercises and conversational tone. It's kind of a better, lighter weight version of "Programming Principles and Practice in C++".

Example: In one of the exercises the authors side-effect a variable; that is, they changed the value of something that was outside of the function. Then, the spend a couple of paragraphs discussing the pros and cons of doing things like that.

This is found throughout the book and it highlights its value: As a book on how to think like and be a programmer.

I WISH that they'd update this for Lua 5.2. Lua 5.2's _ENV feature is well-worth exploring in an educational context and I know that these authors would do an excellent job of it.

-ANdrew

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Gilgamesh

Interesting instructional manual.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2014

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I bought this book a few years ago and finally got around to reading it all the way through. It has a lot of information but a lot of stuff that was missing was complete explanation to using Lua within "C" applications. I came across the same material on various websites and it bothered me. However there are other great things about this book. It teaches how to use Lua in multiple ways such as web servers, stand alone scripts, etc. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who is just starting to program because it can be intimidating based on size alone.

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MLT

Sloppy conversion to Kindle, but still a good reference/learning work.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2017

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Kindle formatting is a little rough. There are clearly areas where the scanned text was not proof-read carefully. That said, it's a very clearly written book and the examples seem to be constructed so that they build on one another in logical ways. I'm getting from it what I wanted. I just wish they'd taken some time to do some quality control on the converstion to Kindle format.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2019

What a fun language

Copy right is 2007 book for old LUA version

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2018

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I would say not for a beginner like me and it is based on LUA version 5.1.1 so it is outdated now .

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SkyPilot51

Excellent. Easy to understand

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2015

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Excellent. Easy to understand.

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RAG

Definitely a programmers guide. More intense than a beginners ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2014

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Definitely a programmers guide. More intense than a beginners guide. Could see this used as a text book for a Lua programing class.

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Doug

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 27, 2016

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A good book to accompany the LUA for windows [...]

Darooman

A good solid introduction to Lua programming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 4, 2012

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From the previous review I bought this in some trepidation, but I needed a guide to Lua straight away so it had to be available on Kindle. Generally Wrox books are pretty decent so I decided to risk it. The first chapter regarding installing Lua and compiling it yourself is probably the worst chapter in the book (and I'm guessing is the reason for the poor review) - once you get beyond that and onto the actual language itself, things get a lot better. I have found Lua itself a great and simple language and this book has definitely been useful.

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ste72

ottimo sia per i principianti sia per programmatori esperti di altri linguaggi

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on August 4, 2016

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Lua è un linguaggio di programmazione molto semplice ma molto diverso da tutti quelli con cui ho lavorato (C++, C#, Swift). Ho provato a studiarlo con altri testi più brevi e veloci di questo ma in generale si limitavano a illustrare la sintassi e il risultato è stato pessimo: con Lua non puoi applicare da subito gli stessi schemi mentali della programmazione ad oggetti, è richiesto un approccio diverso per cui va capito in dettaglio prima di poter essere utilizzato proficuamente. Questo libro invece spiega in dettaglio il senso delle cose e ti aiuta a capire veramente cosa c'è dietro Lua e come usarlo. Lo consiglio vivamente a chi vuole imparare questo linguaggio.

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syzygy

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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on September 3, 2013

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Ich stieß auf Lua, als ich meine Programme mit einer Skriptsprache erweitern wollte und war zunächst skeptisch -
Assoziative Tabellen als Namespaces, Metatables? ... Inzwischen finde ich Lua einfach nur noch genial; kleiner
Sprachumfang, modular, prozedural mit objektorientierten und funktionalen Aspekten, Coroutinen und
einfach erweiterbar mit Funktionaltät der Host-Applikation und externen Bibliotheken (in Lua oder C - leider,
denn ich bin ein überzeugter C-Hasser; eingebttet ist es aber in Delphi).
Lua gibt es für alle Plattformen und ist open source. Außerdem gibt es inzwischen eine große Community und viele Foren.

Das Buch beleuchtet alle diese Eigenheiten von Lua mit vielen kleinen Beispielen (im Netz runterzuladen), die verständlich und ausführlich
dokumentiert sind und viele Anregungen geben. Die Themen reichen vom Datenbankzugriff über Grafik bis hin zu
CGI-Anwendungen (f. Web-Server); dazu werden die z.T. benötigten Bibliotheken ausführlich incl. Installation erläutert.
Allerdings sollte man vom Programmieren schon mal was gehört haben - einige Progrämmchen sind so raffiniert, dass
man schon mal ins Grübeln kommt...

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michelangelog

un buon libro su lua

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on March 7, 2013

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ottimo per chi si avvicina per la prima volta a questo linguaggio particolare che sta vivendo una seconda giovinezza grazie ai molti tools orientati al mondo mobile che stanno nascendo in questi anni, la qualità dei libri wrox è sempre molto alta, lo consiglio veramente.

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