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Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 4396

Beginning in Lua for Corona SDK

I have started working on Corona SDK.As you all know it uses Lua as the programming language,i wanted to know some good links or ebooks which i can refer to begin development.I am an iPhone developer and working on objective C since last 1 year.

Any suggestions,help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Aditya

Upvotes: 20

Views: 13201

Answers (9)

ReSharper
ReSharper

Reputation: 13

hello you can use their website they have good documentation you will find it here

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/

Upvotes: 1

Virag Brahme
Virag Brahme

Reputation: 2062

For understanding basics of CORONA SDK I will prefer "Corona.SDK.Mobile.Game.Development.Beginners.Guide" book from Packtpub publication. and You can also check out http://www.learningcorona.com/ for tutorial both video and audio.

Upvotes: 3

Jerry Adkins
Jerry Adkins

Reputation: 148

There are several Corona sdk video tutorials on YouTube. One demonstrates how to create a simple balloon game in a few minutes. You can have Your Lua editor in one window and YouTube in another, and click on the video to start/stop and switch to the editor and type in the code. Some tutorials provide links to download the code.

Upvotes: 1

Riccardo Bocci
Riccardo Bocci

Reputation: 213

My very personal advice is just take a look at great books (Programming in LUA is covering everything) and switch as soon as possibles to samples / tutorials in order to learn all the API functions.

Upvotes: 2

Fogview
Fogview

Reputation: 56

I found the Beginning Lua Programming book to be pretty good as a complete reference for Lua with good example code.

Upvotes: 2

Please treat your mods well.
Please treat your mods well.

Reputation: 4361

I've been using this: Programming in Lua, first edition (FREE online edition of the book) The Corona SDK forums are also good for specific issues related to the SDk itself. It seems it is having a few database problems just right now, but you might want to check it later.

Edit: just for completeness, here is the link to the Lua Bookstore @ amazon (not an affiliate link).

Upvotes: 14

jpjacobs
jpjacobs

Reputation: 9549

The Lua Reference Manual is also an excellent read: Concise and complete.

Lua Gems is also worth looking at (at least the freely available snippets).

Upvotes: 2

Jonathan Beebe
Jonathan Beebe

Reputation: 468

Here's a great resource for learning Lua, it's aimed towards beginner programmers (doesn't sound like you), but it does a great job at introducing Lua and most of the basic concepts:

Lua for Beginners:

http://lua.gts-stolberg.de/en/index.php?uml=1

That, as well as the "Learning Corona" section of the Ansca docs should be plenty enough to get you up to speed in a very short amount of time:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/resources/docs/

TIP: Start working on a project, or converting an existing app using Corona and you'll learn it blazing fast! That's what I did, and I learned it quickly enough to have one of my games fully converted in about 8 days.

Upvotes: 4

walter
walter

Reputation: 364

You can also check out http://learningcorona.com/ which has a huge listing of tutorials for Corona.

Upvotes: 11

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