Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to use corona, and I know it invloves using Lua. I’m confused about what to learn. Should i learn Lua first and then try to use corona? [import]uid: 72167 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 311837[/import]
Here’s a good place to start:
http://www.anscamobile.com/resources/ [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43097[/import]
But that doesn’t really answer my confusion, should I learn Lua now? [import]uid: 72167 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43098[/import]
Well Corona is ALL Lua, so yes you should learn lua or you will not be able to use it 
Read those pages. There’s lots of example code with a ton of comments explaining what it does [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43100[/import]
www.learningcorona.com is probably a best start [import]uid: 16142 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43102[/import]
Thanks, and my other question is should I even both with Corona until I learn Lua? [import]uid: 72167 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43106[/import]
You should practice your Lua skills using the Corona Trial [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43108[/import]
So…yes? I asked a yes or no question… [import]uid: 72167 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43111[/import]
Question: Should I learn Lua?
Answer several times: YES! [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43115[/import]
I started watching videos. After watching the videos I would copy the code to recreate what I just watched. There’s a couple of videos showing basic stuff, you can find them in the www.learningcorona.com website.
That’s a good start I’d say.
Lua is a scripting language similar to javascript and if you ever programmed with any language you’ll find it easy to learn quickly; at least the basic stuff.
After that you’ll find yourself looking into the resources section for more information about the API, I would look at the examples and load them into the corona simulator. Run them and open them in a text editor to compare what was done to what is written.
Hope that helps.
cheers
adrian
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@jman,
there is no such thing as Corona Language… CoronaSDK is a framework built on Lua. So, if you do not know lua, you can do nothing with CoronaSDK, if you do not understand the objects and framework that Corona is, you cannot create apps using lua with Corona.
to illustrate that further, C++ is a langauge, but MFC, ATL, OWL are(were) frameworks that used C++, if you did not know the frameworks, you could not use them to build your app in c++, but you needed to know C++ irrespectively.
I hope that answers your YES/NO question that was answered by so many, so many time.
cheers,
? [import]uid: 3826 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43155[/import]
Heya,
Check out this as a great starting point; http://techority.com/2011/01/12/corona-for-newbies-part-1/
That’s part one of four.
Personally I knew nothing about coding of any sort when I started with Corona and learned Lua as I went.
Welcome, by the way
Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 11837 reply_id: 43219[/import]