Reddit reviews Programming in Lua

The best introduction to Lua, without a doubt, is Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy (the language's creator). I personally have a signed copy of the second edition.

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Lua-Roberto-Ierusalimschy/dp/859037985X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469519691&sr=8-1&keywords=programming+lua

Here is a good book to help learn, if you prefer books.

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Lua-Third-Roberto-Ierusalimschy/dp/859037985X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372257298&sr=1-1&keywords=lua+programming

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Title | Lua Tutorial
Description | Get the Cheat Sheet Here : http://goo.gl/0j15W0 Best Lua Book : http://amzn.to/1SUTogK Support me on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/derekbanas Data Types 3:43 Math 6:58 Conditionals 10:53 Ternary Operator 15:20 Strings 16:35 Looping 19:11 Repeat Until 20:44 User Input 20:56 For 22:00 For In 22:29 Tables 23:41 Functions 28:26 Return Multiple Values 29:25 Variadic Functions 33:13 Closure 34:27 Coroutines 36:46 File I/O 40:10 Modules 43:32 Metatables 45:30 OOP 51:00 Inheritance 55:04
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The Lua users wiki isn't bad. If you're starting from 0 programming knowledge, buy the book.

You can use http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Lua-Roberto-Ierusalimschy/dp/859037985X - WELL worth it - and I write software for a living. I am sure you can find a vendor that sells a digital copy.

Hi, thank you. :)

You should learn C++ using C++ Primer by S. Lippman. (Not to be confused with C++ Primer Plus which was linked here before). Just be sure to learn modern C++, not "C with classes"! Then I recommend reading Effective C++ and Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers. Effective Modern C++ has some awesome examples of modern C++, but it also contains pretty hard edge-cases, so be aware of that.

The best way to learn Lua is by this book. It's very well written and I consider it to be not only the best book about Lua, but one of the best programming books ever!

Lua Users wiki is also very useful and contains lots of resources and sample code.

I also recommend checking out SFML Game Development book which is well written and contains some game programming patterns. You'll find it very useful even if you don't use SFML.

Oh, and Game Programming Patterns is a great read too.

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Now, how much experience should you have with C++ to make games with it? That's a hard question! You should just start learning it and try making some small games with SFML or Corona. You'll see what you have to learn for yourself. :)

Lua and Corona SDK is how I got started with game development, and programming in general. How much experience do you have with programming? If you are an absolute beginner, you may want to check out a tutorial I wrote.

If have a programming background, the book Programming in Lua is a good place to start to learn about the language.

Corona also has a ton of resources on their site called Corona University, so I would definitely check those out.

The book is written by the creator of the Lua Language, edition 3 is the latest:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Third-Edition-Roberto-Ierusalimschy/dp/859037985X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380983432&sr=8-1&keywords=programming+in+lua

The book (that online one is for 5.0, the paperback I bought targets 5.2) was phenomenally helpful for me