Best free websites and books for lua

Discussion of Lua and LuaWML support, development, and ideas.

Moderator: Forum Moderators

Post Reply
hay207
Double Style Tourney #1 Champ
Posts: 121
Joined: November 26th, 2009, 5:46 am
Location: Egypt

Best free websites and books for lua

Post by hay207 »

Hi all
I wanted to learn lua, just found the reference free, but after search , found these too, Enjoy.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/
http://lua-users.org/wiki/
http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/
https://ebens.me/post/lua-for-programmers-part-1/
http://luatut.com/crash_course.html
http://www.lua.org/gems/

Found most of these here, https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-books-learn-lua/

Any paid good book someone bought for lua?
Ports: Velensk's tower defense, dov's deep shrine, Scrolling survival, Scrolling survival Co-op, Temples of the nagas.
Addons: Tower defense maps , some ANL scenarios like: ANL 3p "A New Land" survival type, and ANL Co-operative map for 2p
gnombat
Posts: 682
Joined: June 10th, 2010, 8:49 pm

Re: Best free websites and books for lua

Post by gnombat »

There's also the Programming in Lua book:

https://www.lua.org/pil/

You need to pay to get the latest edition, but the first edition is free to read online:

https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html
User avatar
Bladget
Posts: 22
Joined: August 23rd, 2020, 9:47 pm
Location: Eastern Europe

Re: Best free websites and books for lua

Post by Bladget »

Lua is well designed and therefore easy to learn. I never read any books on Lua. I only read a brief explanation of syntax and code examples. After around a month of practice, probably around five years ago, I was perfectly capable of understanding and writing Lua. Regarding writing Lua code, your demands are defined not by the language but by the specific project.

When it comes to scripting languages I believe it's perfectly valid to learn by experimenting.
Post Reply