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Lua Embedding Training Course

Nobleprog Limited

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In Bristol ()

£ 2,190 VAT inc.

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This Lua course teaches how to interact with Lua from C (and/or other programming languages).
We discuss integration in both directions: how to embed C code in Lua (eg. for performance gains), and how to make a C/C++/Java program extensible with Lua.
As an in-class exercise we create a small program that is extensible with Lua.
The course also tackles the Lua virtual machine and teaches how to understand the bytecode underpinning the language.
This course can serve an add-on to the Lua Fundamentals or Lua Advanced courses in which case a shorter (1 day) version can be organized.

About this course

A good understanding of the basics of the Lua programming language

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Course programme

Compilation
  • Compilation
  • Eval
  • Relationship with the environment
  • Binary chunks
Garbage collection
  • Weak tables
  • Finalizers, the __gc meta-method
Lua bytecode and virtual machine
  • Generating bytecode from source code
  • Reading and analyzing bytecode
  • Quick tour of the source code of the Lua VM
C modules
  • Calling C from Lua
  • Search path and loading of C modules
Calling Lua from C
  • The Stack
  • Error handling
  • Continuations
Handling Lua values and types from C
  • Arrays
  • Strings
  • Userdata
  • Metatables
  • Object oriented calls
  • Light userdata
Memory management
  • Allocators
  • GC API
Threads in Lua
  • Co-routines vs threads
  • Real multi-threading and Lua states

Additional information

14 hours (usually 2 days including breaks)

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Lua Embedding Training Course

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