Advanced Lua Training Course

Advanced Tables

• Using tables for queues and stacks
• Representing graphs with tables
• Implementing matrices as tables
• Creating linked lists using tables
• Managing string buffers

Metatables Illustrated with Examples

• Proxy objects
• Read-only tables
• Memoization techniques
• Applying memoization in dynamic programming
• Calculating Fibonacci sequences

Environments

• Understanding the link between global variables and environments
• Handling free variables
• Working with the _ENV and _G tables

Further Exploration of Modules

• Various methods for creating modules
• Modules that modify existing behaviour
• Module initialisation and argument handling
• Utilising environments to build secure modules

Advanced Iterators and Co-routines

• Producer, consumer, and filter patterns
• Encapsulating co-routines to create iterators
• Developing stateless iterators for linked lists

Contributing to the Ecosystem

• Publishing packages to MoonRocks

The Functional Paradigm in Lua

• The map function
• The reduce or fold function

Object-Oriented Programming

• Various strategies for implementing OOP
• Different approaches to inheritance
• Practical examples

Exploring the Lua Standard Libraries