Advanced Lua Training Course

Advanced tables

• Using tables for queues and stacks
• Representing graphs with tables
• Implementing matrices as tables
• Linked lists implemented via tables
• String buffers

Metatables demonstrated through examples

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

Environments

• The relationship between global variables and environments
• Free variables
• The _ENV and _G tables

Further insights into modules

• Various approaches to creating modules
• Modules that alter behavior
• Module initialization and argument handling
• Utilizing environments to create safe modules

Advanced iterators and co-routines

• Producer, consumer, and filter patterns
• Wrapping co-routines to generate iterators
• Stateless iterators for linked lists

Contributing to the ecosystem

• Uploading packages to MoonRocks

The functional paradigm in Lua

• The map function
• The reduce/fold function

Object-oriented Programming

• Diverse approaches to OOP
• Diverse approaches to inheritance
• Practical examples

A walkthrough of the Lua Standard Libraries