Lua Crash Course - Less than 15mins

A guide to lua for people who already know how to code in another language
Timestamps:
1:13 hello world
1:25 comments
1:31 variables
2:39 conditional statements
4:47 functions
5:23 scope
5:42 global variables
6:10 loops
7:36 tables
9:57 2 dimensional tables
10:46 key tables
13:05 math library
13:51 modules
Links
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Cheat sheet: github.com/poh...
Lua Docs: www.lua.org/do...

[@sh0ker]

I usually don't comment much but I just had to because the video was the perfect example of a crash course that is aimed at non-beginner programmers. Fast, well explained, clear, to the point, highlight the difference between common programming languages. Really well done.

[@borgiedude]

Well said. This is exactly what I needed.

[@JabirAH]

Same thoughts.

[@KManAbout]

Somethings I would have liked to see were things like if there are generators, classes, decorators, anonymous functions etc.

[@patjustpat8178]

what he said

[@ivanjijon8647]

And it has some misleading information too, as a bonus

[@illuminum8576]

Finally a short video that explains everything well, and is made for people that already now other programming languages. Absolutely fantastic

[@fredfred9847]

Great video as usually coding videos are hours long but this is the nice fast pace i want

[@solarwater3298]

Google is a terrible site

[@awamaty]

I already know how to code with python, c# and c++, and I can already tell this video is fantastic. Straightforward for those who already know concepts of programming! Well done.

[@rain_sq]

bro this is actually helpful cuz i aint trying to watching a beginner tutorial when im already a software engineering college student and too lazy to read documents on this… thanks for the crash course

[@awamaty]

same! i'm a c# + c++ coder, and this tutorial is perfect for me lol

[@sir_no_name1478]

You saved so much of my time. Thanks dude. I need to learn Lua for Open computers ^^

[@list9016]

This is perfect, you just need to learn one language decently well and you can learn others in a really small amount of time. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@garychike266]

Good! Except one possible oversight: 10/2 = 5 is incorrect. Lua 5.3 distinguishes between floats and integers. 10//2 = 5 is correct with two forward slashes (//) and performs the integer division like C and C-based languages. 10/2 = 5.0 defaults to a float(real) division like Pascal and Pascal-based languages.

[@tadeob_UB]

interesting

[@mr.technology7109]

What's power and modules

[@eezara961]

I'm a complete beginner and this video has helped me a lot and solved my various doubts. Well!! Thank You

[@antoniomasotti8060]

I wished there were more such videos for "less known" languages. As developer is always so annoying to go through all those tutorials that explain for the 100th time what a var or a loop is... Very well done!

[@shanerj4410]

This was awesome! I've learned the basics of python and was able to follow just about everything just reading your examples and what I didn't understand I did when I unpaused it and listen to you explain. Would love to see videos like this for other languages!

[@quasigod1083]

This is an awesome video, it can be tough to find guides for new languages that aren't made for complete beginners to programming. Thank you!

[@Muskar2]

Almost everything I needed to know with very little wasted time. Much appreciated!

[@JabirAH]

A perfect crash course to get the idea of what Lua is instead of watching hours of tutorials.

[@490o]

Finally a tutorial that doesn't hand-hold you through the entire thing. It's so annoying especially if you already know how to program.

[@jayel9809]

Currently interviewing for a AAA game studio that uses Lua to build their interfaces (I have a FE/Javascript background). This was exactly what I needed to get a sense of what that would look like 👌

[@FifthSparkGaming]

Perfectly paced course for those who know how to code and can't sit still for more than a minute. Thanks for this!

[@TheHobbit28]

For someone who knows how to program this is a really cool Crash Course :) Thanks a lot

[@NilsKullberg]

As advertised, a crash course. Just the way it should be done. Thanks!

[@cheffromspace9771]

Perfectly paced and exactly what I needed with no fluff.

[@benzenatizineeddine7816]

you just saved me 3 hours of learning things a already know. thank you dude

[@jkobain]

04:29 - I must note that «not x == 10» is equivalent neither to «not (x == 10)», nor to «x ~= 10»; in fact, «not» precedes the equality check. I think in section 3.4.7 they covered it. So instead you're trying to compare «not x» to «10», which will yield false any day of the week.

[@ozzyfromspace]

Surprised how well this crash course was. I now understand the basics of lua. You rock, friend!

[@Gabzim]

hey if in the timestamps in the description you include "00:00 Intro" or something like that, it'll show the chapters in the youtube progress bar.

[@matthewwoodruff3563]

I usually do not comment, and I just had to say thank you! This was extremely well done!

[@danielfernandes1010]

Thank you so much! I needed a quick way to learn Lua and your explanation was perfect!

[@aoli2182]

Concise, quick, organized. Love it.

[@montoyabaezdiegoricardo5450]

I hate when I try to learn another language and every course starts with programming learning instead of the language. Thank you :D

[@InfoSecDojo]

another language that i can add in my resume 🐎🐎 thanks

[@cordelldev]

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you.

[@spyh4rd]

This is literally exactly what I need. Thank you so much

[@cariyaputta]

Perfect introduction to a language.

[@mr_legendaryguy9870]

Great video, perfect for just getting a quick idea of what the language can and can't do.

[@marinac.ll.4840]

Brilliant explanation! Thank you very much

[@LRTOTAL]

Why they went with the ~= for inequality is a mistery to me. Not all keyboard layouts have the ~ key, for example my keyboard doesn't. Edit: Apparently it's not a problem anymore: I found out that you can use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) to create a layout and add any ascii/unicode character to any key! It's so cool. So I don't have to use Alt+126 to write ~ anymore.

[@thenecroking6170]

I mean you can also pull out an on-screen keyboard

[@LRTOTAL]

@@thenecroking6170 Yes but at that point it's quicker to use Alt+126 Or do the MSKLC thing once and get ~ mapped to the keyboard permanently

[@mist7293]

I really needed this, im coming from js and ive been looking for a good video to take me off of the difference between lua and js. Thank you 😊

[@mopsfl]

local data ={"Hello", "World"} for i, v in pairs(data) do print(i, v) end Yay

[@marctalcott5613]

Great help for the basics of Lua. Thank you.

[@awamaty]

Hello! Does this tutorial apply well to Roblox coding and scripting?

[@jonathanward7216]

Omfg that cheat sheet is legendary

[@originalni_popisovac]

Thanks, i didn't know how boolean value works, this video help me. But, not only boolean value, more things in this video was interesting.

[@unaisulhadi9102]

Nice video, you just saved me from documentation hell

[@thenecroking6170]

Very insightful, just long enough to understand, good comparisons, and most of all.. free, lol. Great vid

[@user-pf9jv1fl2n]

Am speechless thank you so much you've literally saved me so much time

[@abdullahnaim8073]

WOW THE BEST CRASH COURSE I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!! THANK YOU!

[@tadeob_UB]

No time wasted here. Thanks

[@fadijabr8992]

I did programming in Pascal in the 90s. It seems Lua is resurrecting Pascal from the past. Anyone who knows Pascal sure will agree with me.

[@borgiedude]

It also seems to share some simlarities with LISP with the use of tables / lists and no variable types. Admittedly that's where the similarity to LISP ends.

[@absmustang]

Turbo Pascal used to be the sh!t then suddenly nobody cared. Beautiful language.

[@oscarjeans4119]

This is a great crash course, exactly the kind of thing people like me who love to jump in a learn whilst doing need to get off the ground. But also alot of the stuff you mentioned were weird, to me they just look alot like VBA. But i guess they are both scripting languages

[@snipzmattio5887]

Good video. As a somewhat decent C and dart user, this is just what i needed

[@flannn6]

Thank you very much for this content! This is really helpful to get a quick start at the language.

[@stevelitt]

Perfect concise explanation! Thanks for sharing this!

[@vulcalien-priv-abc]

Nice tutorial. Really good for just reminding basic concepts of this simple language. But... why global variables are done like that? Just not using "local" makes them global, as much as I know.

[@ironmanlifts]

Thanks for the tutorial. I was wondering what the hash was lol. Basically, it allows you to Enumerate like in python as long as you use the hash and declare the counter. Vimscript should have gotten some tips from lua, all the functions end with 'endfunction' , 'endfu'.

[@ltd5480]

After this, I can add Lua to my resumé for the programming language

[@maximofernandez196]

Man, this I exactly what I needed

[@sauraabh]

This is exactly what I needed

[@alisa2284]

Really helpful! I am searching for a lua crash course in order to work with sol2 library.

[@jlamores]

I would like to have this cheat sheet printed in paper for reference. The link in the description takes me to the github, but it's not easy to print and keep the formating. Can you help me?

[@popplestones886]

while i

[@arthur5996]

Perfect, very clear, thank you very much !!

[@vlaktorbb]

finally a good Lua video; thx! ;-)

[@flathippo4997]

a lot of the examples were incorrect but you got the basic concepts down so its a 8/10 from me

[@blitzkreg335]

This was great knowledge. Exactly what I wanted.

[@StarMineBR]

Hey Buddy, great video, but there are some mistakes, like the "if not x == 10 then", in Lua, we need to add parenthesis in the comparison, "if not (x == 10) then".

[@jaimedpcaus1]

Can you do one tut where you incorporate Lua into C? Thx

[@TyPiEx]

This was a great short summary, thanks!

[@arufuponics8415]

nice overview to get started with lua

[@alexandrutica6610]

Can we make softwares with lua

[@Alexander-mk4qf]

yes lua can

[@lucianorodriguez7726]

I have so many scripts of a game called Worms3D, but they are all in .LUB files. There is a good way to read the configs of each map (every script) of that files? How I have to manage to convert the Lub files into Lua files?

[@VulcanOnWheels]

1:16 They're called parentheses. 5:44 Why do this instead of leaving out "local" and "_G."?

[@cristianfigueredo566]

Thanks, i am learning Lua for neovim

[@Wo0dY101]

Thanks, exactly what I needed!

[@ProtonChicken]

Great video and very useful cheat sheet, thanks!

[@samyakbharsakle]

absolutely goated video

[@044_sanketpalchaudhary_mec8]

hi, I had a small if you can pls solve, at the place where you explain if statement you have commented that the print statement will not be executed, why is it so?? Also a great video loved, helped a lot :)

[@Cumaran]

I think that is a mistake (at 2:40) and a similar mistake at 3:50. Seems to have mixed up the < and > signs.

[@brotherlui5956]

Quick and dirty i would say, there are several errors, the biggest being there is no += operator as shown in "sum += value", you need to write "sum = sum + value"

[@x1plus1x]

Can you direct me to a crash course for people who don't already code? I got interested in this because I want to make addons for World of Warcraft.

[@dennisdecoene]

Good overview of the what and how but not of the why. What can you use it for?

[@freaklore]

This language is so similar to Ruby, Elixir, Python and JavaScript.

[@awamaty]

yes. definitely python and javascript in my opinion.

[@axvex595]

Honestly, I would recommend to anyone who's starting out to learn python before anything else, since it's easy to learn, has fun implementations for projects, and last but not least, it allows you to learn pretty much any programming language with ease because most of them are just gonna seem like Python but with extra steps (or maybe less steps).

[@zadfoe]

Start with batch

[@zadfoe]

@@eshay3067 why not its literally so easy and teaches you some of the basics

[@zadfoe]

@@eshay3067 i started with batch so i might be biased

[@W_0_W]

If you are looking for an OOP library, use middleclass: github.com/kikito/middleclass. I tried about 15 different libraries and this one is the best.

[@__3093]

this was uploaded 2 days after my birthday

[@hi-hg4og]

omg i learned to code in 10 seconds!!!!

[@thegreendude2086]

Thanks for the cheat sheet

[@krishnaraj3989]

thanks a lot man, great vid. keep going, i still dont get the point of this language tho

[@Kitsune_Dev]

Thanks for making this you are awesome!

[@wirojtamboonlertchai467]

Great video. Thank you so much!

[@callmehsarah2924]

amazing video! perfect length for me:D

[@MarkVolkmann]

Where can I find your Lua cheatsheet?

[@IvanSedov-i7f]

Thanks you. Very cool.

[@s4degh]

Thank you, Thank you.

[@Silver0Crow]

Great video! What about classes, tho? It looks similar to js common 🤔

[@ChristopherFranko]

preciate it fam

[@alisanan9090]

Why you stopped making videos?

[@yourcatboymaid]

Great video! Ty

[@vincenzo3574]

Watching this for computercraft lmao

[@r50142]

Same lol.

[@eddev]

@GraphicsOn the two biggest uses for Lua are Roblox and Cheat Engine

[@oako-uconn4973]

GTA V Scripting

[@ramon1930]

@@eddev V-rep too

[@redchief94]

Computercraft got me to install linux as my base os.

[@williamlongin7140]

I'm looking for a mentor in LUA. Can anyone help me?

[@idrissberchil25]

Alright, now how do compile the thing ?

[@Betruet]

great video

[@rithvikbejoy3608]

First time i have heard round brackets.

[@bantest7807]

Good video, I understand some things