Advanced Lua Training Course

Advanced tables

• Tables for queues and stacks
• Tables describing graphs
• Matrices as tables
• Linked lists as tables
• String buffers

Metatables through examples

• Proxies
• Readonly
• Memoization
• Dynamic programming with memoization
• The Fibonacci example

Environments

• Relationship between global variables and environments
• Free variables
• The _ENV table and the _G table

More about modules

• Different approaches to creating modules
• Modules that change the behavior
• Module initialization and arguments
• Using environments to implement safe modules

Advanced iterators and co-routines

• Producer, consumer, filter
• Wrapping co-routines to get iterators
• Stateless iterator for linked lists

Contributing to the Ecosystem

• Uploading packages to MoonRocks

Functional paradigm in Lua

• The map function
• The reduce / fold function

Object-oriented Programming

• Different approaches to OOP
• Different approaches to inheritance
• Examples

A walkthrough of the Lua Standard Libraries