Lua is a powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language used for building games (such as Roblox, World of Warcraft, and Angry Birds), web apps (such as Venmo and Adobe), and developer tools. This course for beginners will teach you the basics of programming with the Lua language while giving you interactive practice building terminal-based programs.
Take-Away Skills:
In this course, you will learn a variety of basic programming skills using the Lua language. You’ll learn how to:
- Write code in Codecademy’s built-in code editor
- Add comments to your code
- Print messages to the terminal
- Identify and use the various data types
- Store data using variables
- Make decisions using conditional statements
- Organize your code using functions
Lesson 1: Welcome to Learn Lua
Lesson 2: Introduction to Lua
Lesson 3: Variables and Data
Lesson 4: Conditionals and Logic
Lesson 5: Functions
Lesson 6: Learn Lua: Next Steps