Corona Resource Centre - Tutorials, Templates And More...

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hello everyone :slight_smile:

 

It took a while but we finally got around to posting our own version of www.learningcorona.com!

LearningCorona was and is still a very handy tool for finding tutorials, but unfortunately it isn’t updated very often and has a lot of dead links. Therefore we scoured the links, removed the dead ones, added some extras and now we have a pretty considerable list of Corona tutorials and samples.

 

Link: Corona Resource Centre - Tutorials, Templates and More…

Our aim is to keep the list updated as often as possible and to continually add any recommendations from the community. Therefore if you feel we missed out some awesome tutorials then please get in contact with us either on here, our website, Facebook or Twitter! We will be more than happy to amend and add to the list to make it as helpful as possible.  :slight_smile:

Thank you for your time!

Jamie Trinder
www.tandgapps.co.uk [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 334656[/import]

#2

bookmark’d :wink:

thank you! [import]uid: 70635 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137705[/import]

#3

Great idea and thanks for including our code! Really appreciate it! [import]uid: 119420 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137720[/import]

#4

The first 5 tutorial links are dead :slight_smile:

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#5

And the first 5 are links to my own tutorials… oops. All fixed now, thanks for letting me know :slight_smile:

No problem Glitch, there great libraries! [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137723[/import]

#6

Awesome thanks very much! [import]uid: 132483 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137729[/import]

#7

Great job TandG, thank you for putting this together! I have it bookmarked and will refer users to it when they need tutorials or similar material.

Brent [import]uid: 200026 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137732[/import]

#8

Wow, pretty nice!

I was also having some trouble with dead links at learningcorona.com.

Caleb [import]uid: 147322 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137753[/import]

#9

Hi.

For Lua itself, I can think of a few things off the top of my head.

In addition to the Lua demo, here’s another REPL, repl.it, built on top of Emscripten, with source available.

Since LPeg now comes included, some recipes and a tutorial would be handy. For that matter, the wiki itself probably deserves inclusion, as well as the mailing list archive and IRC channel.

Like the code exchange, but for Lua in general: Lua Snippets

In addition to being libraries worth looking at in their own right, the docs for Steve Donovan’s Penlight and LDoc (and probably some of his others) read quite well and ought to get some juices flowing. (He also blogs occasionally on Lua: Imaginary/Real.)

2012’s Lua Workshop. A little hunting should turn up previous years.

NOT Corona-centric, but in case a “Branching Out” (or “Now that you’ve mastered Lua…”) section were of interest, I nominate Metalua blog, LuaJIT, and Lua-in-the-browser (a list).

Anyhow, sending this off before I think of more. :stuck_out_tongue: [import]uid: 27791 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137754[/import]

#10

Thanks a lot for the links! I’ll add them on as soon as I get back into the office in the morning.

Any others just let me know :slight_smile: glad you guys are liking it so far! [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137757[/import]

#11

Hey, I’ve got a few suggestions:

An excellent collection of code and snippets and such:
https://developer.coronalabs.com/code/sskcorona

A great string library:
https://developer.coronalabs.com/code/allen-lua-tool-strings-handling

A game prototype:
https://developer.coronalabs.com/code/match-3-gems-puzzle-game-prototype

My favorite transition library:
https://developer.coronalabs.com/code/improved-transition-function-calls
Caleb [import]uid: 147322 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137763[/import]

#12

Thanks Caleb!

The Corona Resource Page has been updated with an extra 18 links and re-organised slightly.

Theres now a section for Misc Corona Libraries, as the page is mainly made up of tutorials that section is a little light, so any other suggestions from anyone would be much appreciated :slight_smile:

Thanks,
Jamie Trinder [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137854[/import]

#13

A few more suggestions :slight_smile:

My favorite saving library:
http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/save-data-files-tablesnumbersstringsboolean

Quite useful filter generator:
http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/zanuka

A very cool crop library:
http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/useful-crop-library

And…
I’m not sure whether I should do this (it being my own creation), but this seems to have helped quite a few people:

http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/perspective

It’s a camera moving library for tracking things easily.

Oh, and one more thing: You’ve got the tutorial “Screencast: How to make iPad Boks with Corona SDK” with “Boks” instead of “Books” in the miscellaneous tutorials section :slight_smile:

Caleb [import]uid: 147322 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137873[/import]

#14

Updated, we’re now at 404 links :slight_smile:

Thanks for the links and the spelling mistake Caleb!

ps. I actually put perspective on there earlier before you posted it, nice little library! :slight_smile: [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137891[/import]

#15

Awesome! Thanks, TandG!

You might want to add the following under Rob Miracle’s section. I really like this super simple save/load function:

http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/super-simple-lua-table-save-and-load-file-functions

Naomi [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137902[/import]

#16

No problem and thanks Naomi, i’ve added that to Robs section :slight_smile:

Any more just let me know! [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137913[/import]

#17

I remembered Lua Programming Gems earlier today. Lots of good stuff. There are some links and source code there, as well as a useful excerpt at #2, “Lua Performance Tips”. Also, anybody doing anything even mildly complex should put together or use something along the lines of #3, “Vardump: The Power of Seeing What’s Behind” (q.v. table serialization in the wiki).

I don’t recall exactly what it was (and it might be a little much to hunt through right now), it being two or three years back, but I believe there was some interesting stuff in Bitsquid’s papers. I think it was about how they structured their programs to be resumable with live fixups via the in-game console / REPL. My own team eventually erred against that approach in our own stuff at the time, mainly because the design seemed to preclude closure- and coroutine-heavy code, but that’s not to say it wasn’t enlightening.

On those same lines, there may be worthwhile material in the WoW or Warhammer or whatever docs. [import]uid: 27791 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 138021[/import]

#18

Updated: Now contains 415 links, including Brent’s brand new tutorial posted today!

Thanks again for the links StarCrunch, some of the articles from the programming gems page are great!
I did also try to find the article you mentioned from Bitsquid, but unfortunately i didn’t have much luck… Therefore i just linked to their blog in the “Branching Out” section :slight_smile:

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#19

bookmark’d :wink:

thank you! [import]uid: 70635 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137705[/import]

#20

Great idea and thanks for including our code! Really appreciate it! [import]uid: 119420 topic_id: 34656 reply_id: 137720[/import]