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Beginning Lua Programming
  • A small yet extraordinarily powerful programming language, Lua achieved its popularity early on as a video game scripting language and has since evolved into a general purpose programming language that is compact enough to fit on a variety of host platforms
  • This book provides programmers, game developers, and Web site developers with an in-depth look at the various aspects of programming in Lua
  • Complete code samples with practical applications and robust error handling offers beginners helpful learning tools
  • Diagrams provide a visual glimpse behind the scenes of important Lua features such as stacks, hash tables, garbage collection, lexical scope, and function closures
  • Features discussions on managing memory, garbage collection, using libraries, strings, tables, extending Lua, event handling, databases, and Web and game programming


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Title of ebook: Beginning Lua Programming
ISBN: 9780470139523
parent-ISBN: 9780470069172
Publisher: Wrox
Internet download file size: 3389 kb
Pages: 672
Published: 01-2007
Released online for download: 01-29-2007
Author of eBook: Jung, Kurt
Author of eBook: Brown, Aaron
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Beginning Lua Programming


Chapter One

Getting Situated

The first order of business in learning to program in Lua is to acquire and install the necessary tools. For your initial steps, all you need is the Lua interpreter, a small program that enables you to type Lua commands and have them executed immediately. As you advance through this book, you will need additional tools such as a text editor and the Lua compiler.

If you want to write web applications, you'll need access to a web server such as Kepler (a versatile Lua-based web server) or Apache (an industry-wide standard). These and other web servers are freely available on the Internet.

If you want to extend Lua with low-level libraries or to embed Lua into your application, you'll need a software development kit (often referred to as SDK) with a compiler that is compatible with Lua's application program interface (referred to as API).

Lua is written in the C programming language, and a C compiler turns a program written in this language into something that can run on your co ... read full excerpt from Beginning Lua Programming ebook



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