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Lua Basics
Iguana Training Series. It’s easy to master the basic syntaxes and control structures of Lua, especially in Iguana.
This course is part of the Iguana Training Series, a set of private courses that cover an array of interfacing concepts in Iguana.
This course takes a closer look at how Lua works -- its syntaxes, structures and capabilities.
For those of you with a bit of scripting background -- Python, JavaScript, PHP -- you'll adapt to Lua quickly and easily. But even if you have no scripting background, you'll find you can understand and master the concepts quite quickly thanks to the Iguana development environment, which gives you the kind of immediate feedback about your scripting that leads to fewer errors and lower learning curves.
By the end of this course, you will understand concepts and tasks, such as:
- Best practices for using variables
- How to iterate through arrays, or sets of data
- How to build and manipulate strings
- How to interact with environments outside the Translator
Course Curriculum
| Setting up our Lua playground | |||
| Build a new channel | 00:03:00 | ||
| Set up the core project | 00:05:00 | ||
| Require statement and trace function | 00:03:00 | ||
| How to comment | 00:02:00 | ||
| Building your Lua skills | |||
| String concatenation | 00:02:00 | ||
| Local and global variables | 00:04:00 | ||
| Data types | 00:03:00 | ||
| For loops | 00:04:00 | ||
| While loops | 00:04:00 | ||
| Handling multiple values | 00:04:00 | ||
| The colon operator | 00:05:00 | ||
| String manipulation | 00:10:00 | ||
| Lua string answer | 00:05:00 | ||
| Working with tables | 00:08:00 | ||
| Error handling in Lua | 00:10:00 | ||
| Pipes and files | 00:15:00 | ||
| Lua basics summary | 00:01:00 | ||
| Assignment | |||
| Pattern matching tutorial | 00:15:00 | ||
| Quiz | |||
| Lua basics | Unlimited | ||