Resources to learn LUA? ie, books, sites, videos etc etc for a n00b.

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hi all,

So I have realized that even though Corona gives all the stuff to get you going, you still have to learn how to program (duh).

I have gone through every tutorial on this site, and bought LIME as well went through all those tutorials and I still feel a bit lost. I am only 3 weeks into it, but I am excited! I have put together a couple of simple games, but now want to do some tricky stuff with math, and ranges of numbers based on conditions and values of numbers etc etc etc etc.
So I said “I need to learn the core lua language” so I can be proficient with it and utulize Corona’s API’s.

So I ordered “Programming in Lua, second edition” and also printed out the reference manual.

The book I ordered:
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Lua-Second-Roberto-Ierusalimschy/dp/8590379825/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1307992973&sr=8-1

Besides the book and reference manual, any sites that anyone recommends to learn more that has some tutorials?

Keep in mind, I never programmed nothin’ before. I do some .vbs scripts for work that deal with FTP, but those were macros recorded by cuteftp :confused: haha, so I guess that would make me a “script kiddie” whatever that means lol.

Thanks for the input!

-Nick “future lua expert” G,

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#2

you should check out this site…

http://www.learningcorona.com/ [import]uid: 48521 topic_id: 11182 reply_id: 40640[/import]

#3

WOW. Thanks man!
This really butters my biscuit!
See why doesn’t Ansca’s site have it organized like that? :confused:

It’s hard to sort through all the fragmented categories on Ansca’s site. This site you showed me, I like it as it’s right there in front boom in my face!!

tytyty.

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#4

Very helpful link. Thank you =) [import]uid: 61892 topic_id: 11182 reply_id: 40806[/import]