Beginning Lua Programming

Jung, Kurt

ISBN 10: 0470069171 / ISBN 13: 9780470069172

Published by Wrox, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Beginning Lua Programming

Publisher: Wrox

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: good

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Between his first programs submitted to a Burroughs 5500 on Hollerith punch cards and his latest programs tapped into a Palm Pilot, Kurt Jung has been the principal programmer on various projects ranging from airline yield management to state machine driven workflow.

Aaron Brown began programming in elementary school on a Commodore 64. He plays various musical instruments and speaks Esperanto.