Lua Tutorial

This is the third entry in my Lua Tutorial series. See here for an introduction for this series, or here for our previous entry covering “Hello World”.

We can print to the screen now and see all the fun math operators Lua has, but we really can’t do anything of use yet. We’re going to cover the basics of variables and getting user input so we can actually start doing some fun stuff with Lua.… Read the rest

This is the second entry in my Lua Tutorial series. See here for an introduction for this series, or here for our next entry covering variables.

Our first tutorial is going to address writing a basic Lua program. We’re then going to expand over some of the basic features of Lua as well. The goal is to cover using the Lua interpreter as installed, basic printing, and some basic language functions which will be of use down the line.… Read the rest

This is the first entry in my Lua Tutorial series. Check out this for our next entry covering “Hello World”.

Lua (https://www.lua.org/) is a cool interpreted language which is typically known for being embedded in programs as a scripting language to extend programs, but it is also a fast, light, portable standalone language. The core language is extremely simple, but that doesn’t mean it can only do simple tasks.… Read the rest