Very New to Lua/Corona and Programming in General. Just some questions:

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hello World! :wink:

Just a quick background on me. My name is Nick. I was given a computer as a gift at the age of 12. It has been a passion for me ever since. I quickly learned how to take them apart, put them back together, upgrade, fix etc.

When I was 14, I learned how to make simple hacker apps for America Online. Punters, phishers, password crack programs etc. using Visual Basic. I also learned how to make some pretty basic webpages with HTML. Thatā€™s the furthest I ever went with programming.

Iā€™m 30 years old now and I think I finally figured out what I want to do with my life. I wanna make games/apps for mobile phones and sell them on the Google Play/App Store.

I barely started my journey but so far, Iā€™ve made the Hello World program using directions from this website:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/start/helloWorld/index.html

The webpage above made it pretty simple for me. It was well explained. Every other site Iā€™ve gone to for tutorials were extremely confusing. I even tried reading the Programming in Lua document from the official website and it was a little difficult to wrap my head around. Itā€™s a lot easier for me to learn by diving right into it. Hands on experience, you know?

So, where do I go from here? I wanna make apps and games for Android and iOS. Where do I start?

Thank you all for reading and I appreciate any help that you guys provide me.

Nick

#2

Hi Nick,

Welcome to Corona! Iā€™m glad that the ā€œCorona in 5 Minutesā€ guide was helpful to you. From this point, I suggest that you browse Corona University for various tutorials, videos, and guides. Some people prefer different formats (guides vs. videos) and we offer a pretty wide selection in Corona U.

https://coronalabs.com/resources/tutorials/corona-basics/

Beyond that, just experiment, but donā€™t bite off more than you can chew. Start simple, understand the foundations, learn about ā€œscopeā€ (absolutely essential in Lua), understand the Corona ā€œcontent spaceā€ and coordinates, and then try making a very simple app where things move around the screen. The rest will make more sense as you go along.

Best of luck,

Brent

#3

Hi Nick,

Welcome to Corona! Iā€™m glad that the ā€œCorona in 5 Minutesā€ guide was helpful to you. From this point, I suggest that you browse Corona University for various tutorials, videos, and guides. Some people prefer different formats (guides vs. videos) and we offer a pretty wide selection in Corona U.

https://coronalabs.com/resources/tutorials/corona-basics/

Beyond that, just experiment, but donā€™t bite off more than you can chew. Start simple, understand the foundations, learn about ā€œscopeā€ (absolutely essential in Lua), understand the Corona ā€œcontent spaceā€ and coordinates, and then try making a very simple app where things move around the screen. The rest will make more sense as you go along.

Best of luck,

Brent