There doesn’t seem to be a book available on Corona SDK.
As a beginner, I’m wondering if any of the books available on Lua would be a good place to start. My only worry is that there may be things discussed that aren’t available in Corona. Most of these books are older.
Any recommendations from anyone who has read any of these?
Thanks,
Cheryl [import]uid: 93625 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 316424[/import]
This is perfect 
http://www.burtonsmediagroup.com/books/ [import]uid: 50842 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61314[/import]
burtons book not for begineer, learningcorona.com is perfect for noobs, especially peach’s tutorials [import]uid: 16142 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61316[/import]
By my own opinion,
I highly recommend Mrs. Peach Pellen Blog and its Really Very Beginers Tutorials as well. Those for sure are one “big first kick” for someone that is looking forward learning Corona SDK and Lua Coding. That made a very good start FOR ME so I suggest that!
Hope it helps and again I am just sharing my own Corona Coding starting point so the best judge for you is yourself. =]
Techority Blog - www.techority.com
Welcome and Regards,
Rodrigo. [import]uid: 89165 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61390[/import]
Thanks for all the recommendations!
I have been through all of Peach’s tutorials and while it is a great start, it has left me with a lot of unanswered questions.
I’ll look into these and hopefully find what I need. [import]uid: 93625 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61393[/import]
Peach’s tuts are great > techority.com
Dr Burton’s book is good, but I think advanced.
The best way I learned was tearing apart the samples, piece by piece. Commenting out one line, seeing what happens, changing things like values and stuff like that. I never programmed anything before june 2011, so it was new to me as well.
Also, the API are your best friend. I usually start there. Later down the road, you will want to read the Box2d document as well.
For the beginning I basically did something like this:
put a display object on screen, like a ball.
Apply physics so the ball drops.
add a display.newRect at the bottom, add physics to that and make it static.
add drag code (via peach drag code) and play around with that.
add sensors to the ground and to the ball to make it change colors.
Hit up learning corona.com and tackle collision detection (this is a big one, and took me a while but now I see it as not that hard really :).
Basically what I am saying is take an example, start small keep adding. Heavily comment your code and explain to yourself in your own words how something works.
…eh I think that’s about it.
oh and mobiltuts+ is a good place as well to go, google that.
Oh and cheetohmoskeeto on youtube.
Mmmm, yep that’s all I can think of now 
ng [import]uid: 61600 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61395[/import]
hey,
I believe Peach`s Beginers Tutorials are the first step and after that the Corona Docs will give you a very good base as well as answering the primary questions you got.(as you said above)
Regards, [import]uid: 89165 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61396[/import]
Programming in Lua second edition is a great book. 90% of using corona is understanding lua, the other 10% is learning the corona API.
Get that book it will help you so much [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61555[/import]
Thanks Danny. I almost bought that book before I made this post. I found that the first edition of that book is available online for free. After looking over the first edition, I’m glad I didn’t buy the second just yet.
The first edition seems a little advanced (language) and a bit too disconnected from Corona for my needs.
I purchased Dr. Burton’s book and have read the first two chapters. So far I am very happy with it and think it will be perfect for me. I don’t see it as being too advanced at all.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me make the right choice! [import]uid: 93625 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61570[/import]
I agree, that’s why I recommended the second edition. It’s a lot more informative and well written [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61572[/import]
Just came across this and wanted to say thanks for the recommendation of my site/tutorials, guys
After tackling the newbie stuff Dr. Burton’s book is one of the better choices, IMHO
Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 16424 reply_id: 61633[/import]