Duration: 3 days • Price: $2060.00 or £1030.00 +VAT (with hotel room), or $1700.00 or £850.00 +VAT (without room), • Venue: Melksham, England

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• Monday 29 September 2008

• Wednesday 17 December 2008

Our public Lua course takes you from the basics of the language to some of the more advanced features, and teaches you not only the language but the techniques you can apply within the language to write powerful, easy to maintain scripts with good code reusability.

Lua has been designed to have a small footprint, yet you'll learn on this course how easy it is to build on the basic structures such as the ubiqitous table to write code cleanly and quickly.

The final afternoon of the course takes you throuh a number of appliactions of Lua such as using it for web applications and heavy data handling so that you'll see the practical application of the facilities and techniques you have learned about. Some Prior Programing experience (please phone or email if you do NOT meet this requirement - we may be able to offer an alternative)

Getting the most from your Well House Consultants course [Link] The Lua Programming language is a lightweight scripting language which is becoming very popular in gaming and other applications. Its closest relatives include Icon, and Python for its ease of learning and use by non-programmers.

Introduction to Lua. (module U101) What is Lua. Hello Lua World. Sourcing, versions. Where is Lua used?

Numbers and the Math library. (module U102) Variables and variable conventions. Expressions. Operators. Rounding. Data Types. Type and Conversion Functions.

Conditionals and loops (module U103) If while repeat break do and for. Comparing numbers comparing strings. Equality and nil. Combining Conditions.

Strings and the String library. (module U104) Double and single quotes, square brackets and backslashes. String concat, length, etc. Formatting numbers in to strings. String Conversion Functions.

Tables and the table library. (module U105) Introduction. Tables as arrays. Table equality and copying. Sort, Concatanate, remove and others. Table Traversal Functions. Building other structures from tables.

Functions. (module U106) Defining and calling functions. Variable scope. Return values. Chunks as functions. Upvalues and Closures. Variable Argument Lists. Nesting and passing functions and recursion.

Pattern matching (module U108) Anchors, literal characters, counts and groups. Capturing matchs, capturing all the matches (global) Pattern Based functions.

Modules (module U109) The require function. Module directory and environment variables. Namespaces. Globals and Strict. Other Module Functions.

Object Orientation - the Lua way (module U107) Mutable and Immutable Values. MetaMethods and functions as members. Metatables, __index, __add and __lt. Polymorphism and inheritance.

Input / Output (module U110) Keyboard and screen at a lower level. Opening and closing files. Reading and writing files. File status checks and file system operations. Other file system functions.

Trapping and handling errors. (module U111) Logic, syntax, runtime. Assert and Error functions. Error Containment Functions such as pcall. debug.stacktrace.

Other Standard Library features. (module U112) Maths functions - trig, log, random, geometric, etc. Time and date functions. CPU time. Environment, Metatable and Chunk-Loading Functions. Vararg-Related Functions.

Installing Lua (module U113) Sourcing and building Lua (Linux, OSX, Windows) Bytecode, Luac. Garbage collection and implementations. Adding Modules.

Threading and Coroutines. (module U114) Coroutines as co-operative programs. Transferring control and maintaining state. Concurrent tasks, and keeping them apart. Event handling - event loops and yielding.

Building and using community libraries. (module U115) gd - Graphics. SQLite - Database. Using MySQL from Lua. LuaSocket - Network Programming.

Network Lua. (module U116) Providing web content with Lua via CGI. LuaSocket, Server and Client programming. Application protocols such as http. Plua.

Other Lua Subjects (module U117) Environment. Optimisation. Using Lua and C together.

Resources. (module U118) Books, Web Sites. The Lua Wiki. Mailing lists and Forums.

Graham Ellis - graham@wellho.net [email]  [about Graham] Melksham, Wiltshire , England. A taxi transfer can be arranged if you'll be arriving by air from United States. Private Courses can be arranged on site in your country.
Public courses run at Well House Manor - our own purpose fitted training centre and business hotel / conference centre in Melksham.
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1 student	2 students	3 students	For 4 or more students from the same company, please consider a private course.
With hotel room $2060.00 ($2420.50 inc VAT) or £1030.00 (£1210.25 inc VAT) Without room $1700.00 ($1997.50 inc VAT) or £850.00 (£998.75 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $3920.00 ($4606.00 inc VAT) or £1960.00 (£2303.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $3200.00 ($3760.00 inc VAT) or £1600.00 (£1880.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $5780.00 ($6791.50 inc VAT) or £2890.00 (£3395.75 inc VAT) Without rooms $4700.00 ($5522.50 inc VAT) or £2350.00 (£2761.25 inc VAT)
Notes: • Multiple discount applies to bookings for second and subsequent delegates on the same running of a course, and on same order. • Hotel rooms are available for arrival the night before the course starts, for departure after the end of the course on the last day.

Upon completion of your course, you'll have online access to the source code of all the examples from the course, and you'll have access to the "Opentalk" forum where you can raise questions. We also encourage you to email the tutor, and to visit us again to use our library as appropropriate.

Certification? - [Link] Public (scheduled) courses -- http://www.wellho.net/course/ctc.html
For more information about our public courses in general, such as class size, course times, materials provided, special requests, accommodation list, finding our centre, etc.
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Covering topics such as delegate substitution, payment, cancellation policy and other matters.