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Offline Megiddo

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Resources to get started with Lua
« on: April 08, 2010, 05:50:46 PM »
Here's a list of links to help you get off your feet and get into Lua:

http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/ -- Learn Lua in 15 minutes (only for programmers familiar with the basics)
http://www.lua.org/pil/ -- Lua tutorial (written for Lua 5.0, but still works fine for 5.1)
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ -- Lua reference manual for looking up specific functions
http://ulyssesmod.net/docs/ -- The ULib documentation
http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Category:Lua_Reference -- The Gmod lua documentation
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_lua_online.php - Online lua shell, great for practicing what you learn and want to test. (No Glua(Gmod Lua) of course, but will help you practice basics)


[EDIT - JamminR] - 08/29/13 - Changed Gmod lua reference link
[EDIT - JamminR] - 01/21/15 - Added online compiler/editor
« Last Edit: April 07, 2015, 06:12:03 PM by Megiddo »
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Re: Resources to get started with Lua
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2015, 06:12:21 PM »
Added http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/ which is a pretty fantastic reference.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2015, 08:20:05 AM by Stickly Man! »
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Re: Resources to get started with Lua
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2015, 12:30:31 PM »
A great Lua tutorial for those with no prior programming experience: http://www.phailed.me/2011/02/learn-lua-the-hard-way-1/. :)

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Re: Resources to get started with Lua
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2020, 02:38:46 PM »
I know this is old, but a great site I use for testing Lua code is repl.it (https://repl.it/languages/lua). Let's you run it online so you don't have to compile Lua yourself. It doesn't support gLua, naturally.
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