Lua Programming: Complete Course

Description

In this course, you will :

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

Syllabus :

1. Getting Started

• Chunks
• Lexical Conventions
• Comments
• Global Variables
• Types and Values
• Nil
• Booleans

2. Numbers

• Numerals
• Operators - Arithmetic and Relational
• Math Library

3. Strings

• Strings
• Long Strings
• Coercions
• String Library functions

4. Tables

• Tables: Introduction
• Table Indices
• Table Constructors
• Arrays, Lists and Sequences
• Table Traversal
• Table Library

 

5. Functions

• Functions in Lua: Defining and calling functions
• Multiple results
• Variadic Functions
• table.unpack function

6. Input/Output

• I/O Library
• Simple I/O model
• Complete I/O model

 

7. Control Structures

• Control Structures in Lua
• If Then Else
• While loop
• Repeat-until loop
• Numerical For
• Generic For
• Break and Return statements

 

8. Closures

• Functions as First Class Values
• Closures and Lexical Scoping in Lua

 

9. Pattern Matching

• Pattern matching functions
• Patterns
• Solving N-Queens puzzle in Lua.

 

10. Date and Time Functions

• Date and Time
• os.time function
• os.date() and os.difftime()

 

11. Modules and Packages

• Modules in Lua
• Modules as Tables
• require function
• Writing modules in Lua

 

12. Data Structures in Lua

• Data Structures - Introduction
• Arrays
• Matrices and Multi-dimensional Arrays
• Linked Lists
• Queue and Deque concepts
• Deque implementation in Lu

 

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