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Lua Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Lua Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Lua programming

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789343229

Length 202 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Lua

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Gabor Szauer

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Lua FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Lua

3. Tables and Objects

4. Lua Libraries

5. Debugging Lua

6. Embedding Lua

7. Lua Bridge

8. Next Steps

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use tables. Tables are the only data structure available in Lua; they are Lua's most powerful feature. We looked at how to implement a fully working object system using tables. This kind of extension to the language itself is what makes Lua so powerful.

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Authors (1)

Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.

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