Programming in Lua, fourth edition Pdf

ISBN: 8590379868
Title: Programming in Lua, fourth edition Pdf
Author: Roberto Ierusalimschy
Published Date: 2016-08
Page: 388

Lua is spreading more and more throughout different areas of software, from embedded systems and mobile devices to the Web and the Internet of Things. Besides, it has a major role in the game industry, where knowledge of Lua has become an indisputable asset. Lua is the language of choice for anyone who needs a scripting language that is simple, efficient, extensible, portable, and free. Programming in Lua is the official book about the language, providing a solid base to any programmer who wants to use Lua. Authored by Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of the language, it covers all aspects of Lua 5---from the basics to its API with C. The book is the main source of programming patterns for Lua, with numerous code examples that help the reader to make the most of Lua's flexibility and powerful mechanisms. Programming in Lua is targeted at people with some programming background, but does not assume any prior knowledge about Lua or other scripting languages. This Fourth Edition updates the book to Lua 5.3 and marks a complete reorganization of the text. Building on his many years of experience teaching Lua, Roberto has restructured the book to present the material in a growing order of complexity, allowing the reader to better absorb the character of the language.

The answers to questions about using Lua are intrinsically answered in the way the book is written. 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.concise and well written the section on the C extension is excellent, the book is laid out logically, the type is nice and big, the whole thing is smaller than most programming books, a nice crisp paper too...Amazing programming language Lua is like BASIC language on steroids. It also has a MODULA-2 approach. Simple, crisp.....it works like a charm. After working with Pascal,Modula2,Fotran,C,LISP(old school), I would say that Lua is in my top 3 favorites choices beside Python and C.

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