Difference between revisions of "Introduction to Lua"

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Gideros uses the Lua programming language. Lua was created in the early 1990s and is very popular as a scripting system in games.

Ideal for both beginners and professionals, if you are familiar with their BASIC or Python then you will feel at home using Lua.

We suggest you have a good book covering Lua. There are many resources on the net, and here are a few of them:

Programming in Lua, second edition by Roberto Ierusalimschy (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/)
Very nice Lua reference manual helper (http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/_)
Official Lua FAQ (http://www.lua.org/faq.html)
Introduction to Lua programming (http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/45/Lua_Programming.pdf)

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 === Overview ===
-Gideros uses [[Basic Concepts|Lua]] as a scripting system.  Lua is a computer [[The Language|language]] that is very easy to learn.   As well as the [[Gideros API]] there are several [[Standard Libraries]] to help you.
+Gideros uses the Lua programming language.  Lua was created in the early 1990s and is very popular as a scripting system in games.
+Ideal for both beginners and professionals, if you are familiar with their BASIC or Python then you will feel at home using Lua.
+[[Basic Concepts]]
+[[The Language]]
+[[Standard Libraries]]
 === Lua Resources ===