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This collection of articles record some of the existing wisdom and practice on how to program well in Lua. In well-written articles that go much beyond the brief informal exchange of tips in the mailing list or the wiki, the authors share their mastery of all aspects of Lua programming, elementary and advanced. The articles cover a wide spectrum of areas and approaches, with authors from both the industry and academia and titles about game programming, programming techniques, embedding and extending, algorithms and data structures, and design techniques.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lua.org; Illustrated edition (December 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8590379841
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8590379843
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 0.76 x 9.69 inches

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Roberto Ierusalimschy is the leading architect of the Lua programming language, driving its development since its inception in 1993. He is a full professor of Computer Science at PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), where he works with programming-language design and implementation.

Roberto has a M.Sc. Degree and a D.Sc. Degree in Computer Science, both from PUC-Rio. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Waterloo, ICSI, GMD, and UIUC, and a Tinker Professor at Stanford. As a professor at PUC-Rio, Roberto was the advisor of several students that later became influential members of the Lua community. Roberto is also a member of the IFIP Working Group on Language Design.

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Baron

A must have for LUA coders

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2013

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The support for LUA is sparse and incoherent. This is understandable as LUA is opens source and is used in so many ways for so many different purposes.

This book provides real world examples of creative uses and/or essential solutions to common scenarios.

Each chapter is written by users of LUA demonstrating their solutions and how to roll your own in detail.

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Dan Kosko

good job

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quick delivery. just as described. good job

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Kevin Weatherman

Not a bad addition to your Lua repertoire

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2010

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I recently got this book and read through it. Seeing there are no reviews here yet, I figured I better write one to give some an idea of what this book is about.

Note I'm no beginner to Lua.
Over the last five years I have written thousands of lines of Lua and have done pretty advanced interfacing to the Lua C API (for custom modules), added LuaJIT and other customizations, etc.
I really like the language; it's clean and simple, yet very versatile in it's details.

First, the book wasn't quite what I had expected.
I was hoping it was full of little tricks and techniques of that I didn't already know.
Although it's not in fact "Lua Snippets", it's "Lua programming Gems" after all..

A lot of it are what appears to be more of a case study for particular uses.
Where the authors after having worked out some particular large or difficult problem wrote up sort of a post mortem on what worked for them; on how they solved it et al.
Examples, there are articles on Lua for Game Programing, Lua versions of "Common Data structures" (STL C++ and C# types et al), and oddly even a Forth programming language in Lua, etc.
A lot of which I found a bit abstract in context that was a lot about the problem and perhaps less of Lua as a language.
Although all of which are great if something your looking for fits into one or more of these categories.
You might find a solution to your problem and have it worth the price of book many times over.

My favorite article is the one of the less abstract called "Lua Performance Tips" which you can read officially online free here:
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In the end I'd say if you haven't read "Programming in Lua, Second Edition" or "Beginning Lua Programming (Programmer to Programmer)" yet (both here on Amazon) then read one or both of those first.
Then if you are an immediate Lua user, and, or, one or more of the Gems fit your needs (they should post the TOC here) then get this book too.

A plus is the book is edited by the Lua language authors them self's: Roberto Ierusalimschy (and the author of the "Lua Performance Tips" Gem in the book), Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo!

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Decent tips and techniques

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2013

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This book was a little different than what I expected, but still has lots of useful information that is helpful in understanding how Lua works, and how to become a better Lua programmer.

Coupled with the Lua on line documentation, example code, and "Programming in Lua" this book is a good addition to improving your Lua skills.

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Luis Carlos Rapparini Soares

Four Stars

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best Lua programming tips book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2015

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If you love Lua, you need this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 5, 2011

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The book has a good binding. The examples are well explained and discussed.
This is a book I recommend to anyone who wants to start working with Lua. It is also very useful for those who have worked with Lua but have encountered some problems in implementation of certain algorithms and features.

In general, a highly recommended book.

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Jacek Artymiak

You need it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 1, 2013

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If you want to be good at programming in Lua, this is the book you need. I bought it together with 'Programming in Lua' and ' Lua 5.1 Reference Manual' and I think they're worth every penny.

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Doug

Five Stars

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Lua is a good language. I use it with the GD library to resize jpeg photos.

penny koutoula

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Steve E

worth reading if you program in Lua

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 15, 2009

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This book is a collection of articles by more than two dozen authors. All very well written and mostly easy to read (I skipped chapter 6). Plenty of useful techniques and ideas relevant to Lua 5.0 and 5.1. For the intermediate and advanced Lua programmer. For beginners I recommend the excellent Programming in Lua, Second Edition .
The big shock for me was that the book lacks an index, rather irritating as there is so much useful and interesting material throughout. Definitely worth five stars even without the index. Purchasing this book helps support the Lua project.

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