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This is a comprehensive course dedicated to the language Lua, one of the world's favorite scripting languages. Lua is fast, small, and super easy to integrate with C and C++, which makes Lua an excellent choice to extend and script compiled C and C++ applications.
This course is divided in three parts:
1. The first part is a beginner-friendly journey into the building blocks of the Lua language. We'll start from the very beginning and look at things like variables, expressions, conditionals, loops, functions, tables, object-oriented programming, functional programming, and other popular tools and modules of Lua.
2. The second part is aimed at intermediate-experienced developers that want to learn how to integrate Lua with their native C or C++ projects. We'll put our C-programmer's hat on and review how to embed the Lua programming language inside a compiled application using the powerful Lua C API.
3. The third and last part is a series of short bonus lectures. These lectures will explain how the Lua language is used inside Roblox Studio. Roblox is an example of a popular game engine that uses a dialect of Lua as its main scripting language.
All you need is a Lua interpreter. The official Lua tools are all cross-platform, which means you'll be able to code along on either Windows, macOS, or Linux!
This course has no prerequisites. We'll cover the official Lua language from the ground up, so even beginners with no prior experience in coding are welcome to join!
This is a complete immersion in the world of Lua! We'll learn how to think like Lua programmers, carefully covering the syntax and the most popular modules from Lua.
Differently than most Lua resources out there, this course also covers the integration of Lua with native C and C++ code! We'll learn to work with the Lua C API to embed the Lua language inside a C project, exposing Lua to be used as a proper scripting language.
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in London, UK. He has won multiple education awards as a teacher and is also the founder of pikuma.com.
Gustavo teaches fundamentals of computer science and mathematics; his academic path includes institutions such as Pittsburg State University, City University of London, and University of Oxford.
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"Amazing course! As a beginner in programming, this course has been spectacular so far. Gustavo does a great job explaining Lua's logic, and gradually making it more complex. I'm ready to give the bonus lectures a go and start implementing and practicing what I learned, very excited to do so. The course feels like an excellent starting point for anyone interested in learning programming, Lua's logic is very simple and intuitive, and learning it will help when learning, bigger, more complex languages. Thanks Gustavo! Abraço do Brasil!"
"One of the best intros to Lua out there. Concepts are explained in a very approachable way and the exercises have the right amount of challenge for beginners. 100% worth the asking price if you're getting started on Lua."
"Excellent Lua Course! Easy to follow, clear explanation even good for first time programmer."
"Great course! Apparent and concise instruction. Easy to follow along. I had a few hiccups on Windows OS but these difficulties are mentioned in the course."
"Absolutely amazing. Loved this course. The pace was right for me and I intend to use Lua as a scripting language in my projects. I hope to do other courses in Pikuma as well."
