Advanced Lua Training Course

Advanced Tables

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

Metatables Through Examples

• Proxies
• Readonly patterns
• Memoization
• Dynamic programming using memoization
• The Fibonacci example

Environments

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

Deeper Dive into Modules

• Different approaches to creating modules
• Modules that modify behavior
• Module initialization and arguments
• Using environments to implement secure modules

Advanced Iterators and Co-routines

• Producer, consumer, and filter patterns
• Wrapping co-routines to create 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