Comprehensive Lua

Comprehensive Lua

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*Comprehensive Lua

• Introduction to Lua
  • History
  • Goals
  • References and Tutorials
  • Installing an IDE
  • LuaRocks

    TODO

• • Basic syntax and semantics
  • Identifiers
  • Types
  • More on Strings
  • Tables
  • Comments
  • Expressions and Statements
  • Global Variables
  • Local Variables
• Basic control structures
  • The while and repeat loops
  • The for loop
  • Generic for loop
  • Conditionals if then elseif else end
  • Using break return and goto
  • Using do end to delimit blocks
  • Exercise on Control Structures
• Functions
  • Variadic Functions
  • Returning multiple results
  • Exercise on Functions
  • Named Arguments
  • Closures
  • Exercise on Closures
  • Tail Calls
  • Exercise on Functions (Polynomial Evaluation)
• Data Structures Using Tables
  • Tables in Lua
  • Arrays
  • Multi-Dimensional Arrays
  • Linked Lists
  • Stacks
  • Exercise on Stacks
  • Queues
  • Sets
  • String Buffer
  • Graphs
  • Exercise on Graphs (Work in teams)
  • Tables as Objects
• Errors and Error handling
  • Stop the program on major errors
  • Catch and handle errors when appropriate
  • Give a stack trace with the error message
• Iterators
  • The generic for loop
  • Stateless vs stateful iterators
  • Exercise on Iterators
• Coroutines
  • Producer Consumer Example
• Metatables and metamethods
  • Arithmetic Metamethods
  • Relational Metamethods
  • Library and Table Access Metamethods
• Modules and packages
  • Using Modules
  • How are modules Loaded
  • Creating Modules
  • Organizing modules into packages
• Metatables through examples
  • Default Values for Tables
  • Exercise on Default Values
  • Proxies
  • Exercise on Proxies
  • Read Only Tables
  • Memoization
• Environments
  • Declaring Global Variables
  • Relationship between global variables and environments
  • The _ENV table and the _G table
  • Classes
• Object-oriented Programming
  • Inheritance
  • Exercise on Object Oriented Programming
• A walkthrough of the Lua Standard Libraries
  • Base Library
  • I/O Library
  • Table Library
  • String Library
  • Exercise using Strings and Pattern Matching (in teams of three)
  • The Operating System Library
• Compilation
• Garbage collection
  • Finalizers
  • Weak Tables
• Lua bytecode and virtual machine
• Calling C modules from Lua
  • LuaRocks
  • Exercise Setting up LuaRocks within LDT
  • Networking with Coroutines Example using LuaSockets
  • Exercise on LuaSockets
• Create C Modules, Call from Lua
• Calling Lua from C
  • The Stack
  • Exercise on the Stack
  • Accessing Lua Tables from C
  • Accessing Functions through the Stack
  • Continuations
• Memory management
• Threads in Lua
• Sample Lua and C code