Bemused ramblings some dude says on the internet
This article will be a bit shorter, but has some exercises to practice what we’ve covered so far as well as some other tricks for algorithms and similar outside of the language itself. The goal is to both grow language skills as well as growing our programming skills. Some exercises include extra information and Lua specific tricks.
John has a store and wants a program to give him the total for a purchase.… Read the rest
Lua makes use of functions in order to extend the language and to make code a bit cleaner. This section will go over the basics of functions in Lua as well as some basic recursion. We will also look at how to import code into a file in order to make things cleaner.
Basic function definition in Lua is dead simple.… Read the rest
Sound Kapital: Beijing’s Music Underground is a quick rundown of the underground music scene in Beijing as of around 2007. The music on the included CD runs the gamut from indie rock to straight up punk or hardcore. This book isn’t so much a book as a quick introduction to the artists and the scene and a massive collection of gorgeous photography detailing each artist.… Read the rest
This post is about a crockpot Thai Curry recipe I have been using for a while as well as how to make it vegan if desired. I am going to start with an introduction, but click here if you just want the recipe.
Apparently every single blog post recipe is required to have this part, so let’s get on with it.… Read the rest
Teach Yourself: Get Talking Thai in 10 Days and Conversational Thai in 7 Days are both quick and simple language guides for learning the fundamentals to get the most out of a vacation. Both works feature David Smyth as an author, but Conversational Thai in 7 Days also features Somsong Buasai as an author. Both of these works aim to fill roughly the same role, namely, basic language guides for usage during actual travel to Thai.… Read the rest
This is the seventh entry in my Lua Tutorial series. See here for an introduction for this series, or here for our previous entry covering using tables. Please see here for our first entry.
In our last entry for loops and logic, we covered the basics of for, while, and repeat…until loops, some basic conditions, and the basics of if statements.… Read the rest