Lua.Org Programming in Lua, fourth edition

This is a well-written primer on Lua by one of the language's authors. While it doesn't have the depth of a reference book, it touches on all the major topics and provides enough information to get you started without getting bogged down in excessive details.One of the bonuses of the book's author also writing the language itself is that he often explains why certain design choices were made when he and his colleagues architected Lua. Understanding the rationale and philosophies underpinning Lua really helps when learning the language, in my opinion.

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Das Buch “Programming in Lua”, vom Chefarchitekten der Skriptsprache selbst verfasst, bietet eine sehr umfassende und detaillierte Beschreibung der Sprache. Auf alle Syntaxelemente wird eingegangen. Diese werden anhand kurzer Beispiele näher klar und verständlich erläutert. Wer das Buch gelesen und durchgearbeitet hat, sollte in der Lage sein, auch größere Projekte mittels Lua umzusetzen.Auch wenn jedoch die Erklärungen klar und verständlich sind, so ist es wahrscheinlich eher nicht für den Programmieranfänger geeignet. Es handelt sich hierbei nicht um eine Einführung in die Programmierung allgemein. Der Leser sollte bereits erste Programmiererfahrungen haben und zumindest wissen, was Schleifen etc sind. Dies wird in den Erklärungen vorausgesetzt.Fazit: Eine tolle Einführung und Referenz für die mächtige Skriptsprache Lua, die für all jene, die schon etwas programmieren können, keine Wünsche offen lässt.

Un'introduzione a Lua molto ben fatta, competente e piena di molto buon senso.Il libro è molto ben organizzato e strutturato.L'ultima parte, quella sull'interfacciamento di C e Lua, potrebbe forse beneficiare di una scelta di esempi migliori, dato che alcuni risultano piuttosto artificiali e quindi poco coinvolgenti.

Programming in Lua is an amazing textbook. It effortlessly illuminates the "scary parts" of Lua, exposing the powerful features that are often overlooked by casual users. The read is simple and the first 18 chapters can be absorbed by anyone with basic knowledge of programming in about twenty to thirty minutes (the balance of the book outlines more advanced features and the interface to C).If you're new to programming, PIL will guide you through fundamental concepts and the examples at the end of each chapter are easy to digest. Lua has an interactive shell making it fun to test the commands as you read.If you're at all curious about Lua, this book is your definitive guide. The answers to questions about using Lua are intrinsically answered in the way the book is written. For me, the cost of the purchase has been easily outweighed by the time I have saved *not* having to search the Internet (and attempt to infer an answer from an API reference). That advantage lets me get on with writing my IoT platform and learning to script Roblox worlds in Lua with for my son.