Advanced Lua Training Course

Advanced Tables

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

Metatables in Practice

• Creating proxies
• Enforcing read-only behavior
• Implementing memoization
• Applying memoization in dynamic programming
• The Fibonacci sequence example

Environments

• The connection between global variables and environments
• Handling free variables
• Understanding the _ENV and _G tables

Module Development

• Various strategies for creating modules
• Modules that alter behavior
• Module initialization and argument handling
• Utilizing environments to ensure module safety

Advanced Iterators and Coroutines

• Producer, consumer, and filter patterns
• Wrapping coroutines to create 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
• Strategies for inheritance
• Practical examples

Exploring the Lua Standard Libraries