Lua Scripting: Master complete Lua Programming from scratch

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction and Motivations

Lecture 2: A Message for Roblox Users

Lecture 3: History and Language Evolution

Lecture 4: Why do you want to learn Lua?

Chapter 2: Installing and Using Lua

Lecture 1: A Quick Message About Installing Lua

Lecture 2: Using Lua with REPL

Lecture 3: Installing Lua on Linux

Lecture 4: Installing Lua on MacOS

Lecture 5: Installing Lua on Windows

Chapter 3: Course Source Code (Download)

Lecture 1: Source Code (Download)

Chapter 4: Variables and Expressions

Lecture 1: Our First Lua Script

Lecture 2: Variables

Lecture 3: Older Lua Versions and REPL

Lecture 4: Proposed Activity: Variables

Lecture 5: Variables Activity Solution

Lecture 6: Exercises: Variables and Expressions

Lecture 7: Incrementing and Decrementing Variables

Chapter 5: Conditionals and Logical Operators

Lecture 1: Conditionals

Lecture 2: Elseif

Lecture 3: Proposed Activity: Conditional Statements

Lecture 4: Conditionals Activity Solution

Lecture 5: Logical Operators

Lecture 6: Popular Logical Operators

Lecture 7: Exercises: Conditionals

Chapter 6: Strings and Standard Library Modules

Lecture 1: String Manipulation

Lecture 2: Multi-line Strings

Lecture 3: Reading the Contents of a File

Lecture 4: Multiple Assignment

Lecture 5: Standard Library Modules

Lecture 6: Exercises: Strings and Random

Lecture 7: Patterns in String Find

Lecture 8: Special Characters in Lua Patterns

Chapter 7: Loops and Functions

Lecture 1: The For Loop

Lecture 2: The While Loop

Lecture 3: Loop Options

Lecture 4: Variable Scope

Lecture 5: Local Scope and Lua Chunks

Lecture 6: Syntax & Semantic Errors

Lecture 7: Solving Logical Mistakes

Lecture 8: Input Values from the Keyboard

Lecture 9: Handling Input Options

Lecture 10: Different Input Options

Lecture 11: Finding Distance Between Points

Lecture 12: Finding Angle Between Points

Lecture 13: Arctangent Function in New Lua Versions

Lecture 14: Loop Activity Example

Lecture 15: Loop Activity Solution

Lecture 16: Exercises: Loops

Lecture 17: An Introduction to Functions

Lecture 18: Exercises: Functions

Chapter 8: Tables

Lecture 1: Tables in Lua

Lecture 2: Looping Key-Value Pairs in a Lua Entries

Lecture 3: Tables Example

Lecture 4: Proposed Activity: Reading Table Entries

Lecture 5: Table Activity Solution

Lecture 6: Tables as Configuration Files

Lecture 7: Tables as Matrices

Lecture 8: Proposed Formative Project

Chapter 9: Metatables and Object-Oriented Programming

Lecture 1: Moving Forward

Lecture 2: Metatables

Lecture 3: Exercises: Metatables

Lecture 4: Object-Oriented Programming in Lua

Lecture 5: Creating Classes and Objects

Lecture 6: Exercises: Classes and Objects

Chapter 10: More on Lua Functions

Lecture 1: Higher-Order Functions and Closures

Lecture 2: Variadic Functions

Lecture 3: Coroutines

Chapter 11: Integrating Lua with C

Lecture 1: Working with Lua and C

Lecture 2: C Project Folder Structure

Lecture 3: Executing Lua File From C

Lecture 4: Get Lua Global Values in C

Lecture 5: The Stack

Lecture 6: Push Pop and Peak

Lecture 7: Calling Lua Functions From C

Lecture 8: Checking and Handling Script Errors

Lecture 9: Calling C Functions in Lua

Lecture 10: Userdata

Lecture 11: Sending and Receiving Userdata

Lecture 12: Reading Lua Tables in C

Lecture 13: Installing SDL

Lecture 14: Creating a SDL Window

Lecture 15: The Game Loop

Lecture 16: SDL Rendering

Lecture 17: Fixing Our Game Loop Timestep

Lecture 18: Delta Time

Lecture 19: Controlling the Player Movement with Lua