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Beginning Lua Programming
This book is for students and professionals who are intrigued by the prospect of learning and using a powerful language that provides a rich infrastructure for creating programs. No programming knowledge is necessary to benefit from this book except for the section on Lua bindings, which requires some familiarity with the C programming language. A certain comfort level with command-line operations, text editing, and directory structures is assumed. You need surprisingly little in the way of computer resources to learn and use Lua. This book focuses on Windows and Unix-like (including Linux) systems, but any operating system that supports a command shell should be suitable. You'll need a text editor to prepare and save Lua scripts. If you choose to extend Lua with libraries written in a programming language like C, you'll need a suitable software development kit. Many of these kits are freely available on the Internet but, unlike Lua, they can consume prodigious amounts of disk space and memory.
672 pages, Paperback
First published January 29, 2007
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June 14, 2011
It is a very thorough introduction to this fun language. Good and insightful explanation for most of the things, and fortunately up to date (or notes diligently whenever it cannot be). Some of the later chapters are quite out of the "introductory scope" (e.g. the web and server programming) or curious choice (Lua on Palm PDAs) but can be useful at times. All in all I would recommend this book as first exposure to Lua.
April 4, 2017
This is the first book I read on Lua...it's not a bad book as it explains a lot of Lua and also it's packed with lots of examples...however...it failed to excite me about learning Lua...why? Maybe the tone of the book is too serious...or maybe because knowing a lot about Scripting Languages I dind't feel like I was learning anything "groundbreaking"...
Would I recommend this book? Well...for a total Lua noob...sure...why not...but this book alone might not be enough to leverage all the goodies that the language can provide...
Would I recommend this book? Well...for a total Lua noob...sure...why not...but this book alone might not be enough to leverage all the goodies that the language can provide...
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