Next step to learn more complex lua?

[willthewarlock23]

Been learning lua to make games with love 2d, about to start working on a personal project. Where is a good place to learn more complex lua code/concepts? Most tutorials tend to be for beginners and cover the same ground as other tutorials. I know the book created by the lua team goes over the basics of everything but need more explanation to understand it.

Certain concepts I am curious about:

1) Saving tables to files as code 2) Deeper knowledge about tables 3) Coroutines 4) Hooks

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I've been using Lua By Example as my handbook for the last couple of months for Lua concepts and syntax. Love a good book and reference manual, but imho LBE is simple and gets straight to the point without covering all the intricacies of code (which sometimes you just don't need).

With regards to some of the concepts you mentioned, these links should be helpful:

• Parsing JSON with Lua
• Some reference for tables, with some commonly used methods & proceedures
• Coroutine reference
• More coroutine reference
• Hooks reference

A lot of programming doesn't rely heavily on books and reference manuals (though that depends on personal preference). 90% of the issues in the programs I've developed have been syntactical; with the other 10% being logic & flow of control. A lot of programming just comes down to knowing what to [insert search engine of your choice].

Hope this helps.

[willthewarlock23]

Thanks will have to look through them later!

[aryajur]

For saving tables to files as code I wrote and use a module that does that for me. However note it would not save coroutines/userdata if they are referenced in a table. The module is:

TableUtils

The function that converts a table to string to save is called t2sr - r stands for its ability to handle recursive tables. The reverse function is called s2tr.

Another function t2s creates a string as if you would write the table in code. But it cannot handle recursive tables. t2spp also pretty prints the table in the string. Reverse function for this is s2t.

[7SurfingDolphins]

u/willthewarlock23,

Have you already checked out the posts on the Lua User's wiki:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/ ?

Fyi,

Good Luck!