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deadlykraken is not online. deadlykraken
Joined: 25 Jul 2012
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03 Oct 2014 12:56 AM
So, I know three different coding languages. C++, HTML, and VB..

I would love to learn lua.

I don't know if it's against ROBLOX rules I did read them...

But if it's not a rule. Could someone send me there skype to maybe teach me how to learn the language of lua? Thanks for your time.


C++, HTML and VB programmer!
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128GB is not online. 128GB
Joined: 17 Apr 2014
Total Posts: 8056
03 Oct 2014 01:04 AM
I learned everything I know from pighead10's youtube videos, the wiki, and tons of trial and error
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eLunate is not online. eLunate
Joined: 29 Jul 2014
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03 Oct 2014 01:53 AM
I came from C#, and honestly there's very little you need to know.
You'll want to look at the Lua docs for all their functions and stuff, to start.
Because it's object orientated, you'll need to know about the silly little colon
Basically, the colon is equivalent to calling a function(args) with this as the first argument.
It's dynamically typed, so you don't have to define your variables as anything specific, so you can have your variables as functions too (You'll understand what I mean and why that's nice) so you don't have to mess about with things like delegates.
There is no void return type, because that's just a function. Whereas if you wanted a function to return a specific type you'd have to specify what type it was supposed to be cast to, you don't have to in Lua.

I think that covers most of the important stuff coming from those languages.
Anything else just ask, or refer to the docs.
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