for Beginners
by
Gavin Wraith
Last updated on Mon,18 May , 2009
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Contents
Chapter 1
introduction
why not Basic
what skills are prerequisite?
do I need to know any Basic?
typographic conventions
resources
setting up
running Lua
in immediate mode
from the desktop
from StrongED
using Obey and TaskObey files
the lua virtual machine
Chapter 2
what are programs?
identifiers
comments
types
chunks
lexical scoping
example: A counter factory
Chapter 3
nil
booleans
numbers
strings
Chapter 4
functions
error handling
variable numbers of arguments
recursion
the paradoxical combinator
Chapter 5
structured objects
tables
table constructors
local variables from table keys
Chapter 6
iterators
sorting
coroutines
Chapter 7
modularization
text manipulation
databases
files
Chapter 8
metaprogramming
events
metatables
example: gaussian integers
Chapter 9
patterns
captures
global substitution
MP3 Example
Chapter 10
arrays and indirection
software interrupts
Chapter 11
libraries
Chapter 12
lpeg library
combining lpeg patterns
creating lpeg patterns
captures
