Programming

How To Make A Game Developed With Lua Language

	• Contents:	How to Make a Game Developed With Lua Language:

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Letter from the Series Editor
Introduction
	What's in This Book?
	Why Learn Another Language?
	What's on the CD-ROM?
Part ONE: Introducing High-Level Languages
	Chapter 1. High-Level Language Overview
		High-Level Language Roots
		How, programming Languages Work
		Low-Level Languages
		Today's High-Level Languages
		The Pros of High-Level Languages
		Cons of High-Level Languages
		A Brief History of Structured Programming
		Introducing Python
		Introducing Lua
		Introducing Ruby
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 2. Python, Lua, and Ruby Language Features
		Syntactical Similarities of Python, Lua, and Ruby
		Hello World Samples
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
Part TWO:, programming with Python
	Chapter 3. Getting Started with Python
		Python Executables
		Python Debuggers
		Python Language Structure
		Creating a Simple, user Interface in Python
		A Simple GUI with Tkinter
		Memory, Performance, and Speed
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 4. Getting Specific with Python Games
		The Pygame Library
		Python Graphics
		Sound in Python
		Networking in Python
		Putting It All Together
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 5. The Python Game Community
		Engines
		Graphics
		Commercial Games
		Beyond Python
		Summary
		Question and Answer
		Exercises
Part THREE:, programming with Lua
	Chapter 6., programming with Lua
		Lua Executables and Debuggers
		Language Structure
		Memory, Performance, and Speed
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 7. Getting Specific with Games in Lua
		LuaSDL
		Gravity: A, lua SDL Game
		The, lua, c API
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 8. The, lua Game Community
		Game Engines
		Graphics
		The Games Themselves
		Beyond Lua
		Summary
		Exercises
Part FOUR:, programming with Ruby
	Chapter 9. Getting Started with Ruby
		Debuggers
		Language Structure
		Memory, Performance, and Speed
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 10. Getting Started with Ruby Games
		FXRuby
		Ruby and OpenGL
		Ruby and SDL
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
	Chapter 11. The Ruby Game Community
		Ruby and Game Engines
		Ruby and Graphics
		Ruby and Games
		Beyond Ruby
		Summary
		Questions and Answers
		Exercises
Part FIVE: The Wrap Up
	Chapter 12. Using Python, Ruby and, lua in Development
		High-Level Languages in the Development Cycle
		Extending Python, Lua, and Ruby
		Python versus, lua Versus Ruby
		Summary
		Exercises
	Appendix A. History of Computer Programming
	Appendix B. Meet the Family
		ABC
		Ada
		AFNOR
		C
		C++
		Cobol
		Eiffel
		FORTRAN
		GNU Octave
		Java
		Icon
		Modula
		Pascal
		Perl
		PHP
		Prolog
		PureBasic
		Smalltalk
		Squeak

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# 10/28/2009 04:14:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

Interfaces Graficas para MySQL

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Aqui está uma lista com algumas Interfaces Gráficas freeware ou opensource para o MySQL, sistema de gerenciamento de bancos de dados que utiliza a linguagem SQL (da sigla "Structured Query Language" - ou Linguagem de Consulta Estruturada) como interface, já que é um dos bancos de dados mais popular da atualidade.




SQLyog Community Version (Open Source) - Interface gráfica para você administrar e trabalhar tranqüilamente com bancos de dados MySQL: http://sqlyog.googlecode.com/files/SQLyog815.exe

GnomeMysqlClient (Software Livre) - Cliente gráfico para MySQL escrito em C usando bibliotecas GTK do GNOME. O objetivo desse programa é, pelo menos, fornecer a mesma funcionalidade dos clientes gráficos mais populares mas com ainda mais facilidade de uso: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmyclient/files/


MySQL Control Center (Software livre)
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/mysqlcc.html

phpMyAdmin (Software livre)
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

Eventum (Software livre)
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/eventum/

MySQLGUI (Software livre)
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/other/mysqlgui/

DBDesigner (Software livre)
http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/downloads.php

DBManager (Versão freeware)
http://www.dbtools.com.br/PT/downloads.php

MySQL-Front 2.5 (Versão freeware)
http://www2.fateb.br/ftp/banco_dados/MySQL-Front_2.5_Setup.exe
Obs.: esta versão não conecta a versões mais recentes do MySQL.

Toad for MySQL (Versão freeware)
http://www.quest.com/toad-for-mysql/

DBACentral for MySQL (shareware) - para a execução de operações por todo o banco e sua estrutura, possui uma interface gráfica e uma mecânica parecida com a do MS Access: http://www.microolap.com/downloads/files/mydbacentral/dbacentralmysql.zip

OUTROS
http://solutions.mysql.com/software/

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# 9/27/2009 06:32:00 PM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

Lua Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQ )

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Lua Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Language
  • Suitability as a First Programming Language?
  • Suitability as a Second Programming Language?
  • Any good editors and debuggers?
  • What is the difference between pairs and ipairs?
  • Why have a special operator for string concatenation?
  • Why doesn't 'for k,v in t do' work anymore?
  • How can one put a nil value in an array?
  • Why does print 'hello' work, and not print 42?
  • What is the difference between a.f(x) and a:f(x)?
  • How are variables scoped?
  • Difference between require and dofile?
  • How to explicitly load a binary module?
  • Can functions and operators be overloaded?
  • How to make functions receive a variable number of arguments?
  • How to return several values from a function?
  • Can you pass named parameters to a function?
  • Why no continue statement?
  • Is there any exception handling?
  • No Classes? How do you guys survive?
  • Is there String Interpolation, like "$VAR is expanded"?
  • Packaging as a standalone Application?
  • How do I load and run Lua code?
  • Embedding Lua in an Application?
  • Documenting Lua Code?
• Data
  • How do I access command-line arguments?
  • How to Parse Command-Line Arguments?
  • How to read all the lines in a file?
  • How to read numbers?
  • How to format text and numbers nicely?
  • How to read CSV data?
  • How to work with binary data?
  • Are there Regular Expression libraries?
  • Parsing complex structured text data?
  • Mathematical libraries like complex numbers, higher-precision arithmetic, matrices, etc?
  • How to parse XML documents?
  • How to interface with databases?
  • Persisting Program State?
• Operating System
  • How to get the current date and time?
  • How to execute an external command?
  • How to list the contents of a directory? Ask for file properties?
  • Running a program as a Service/Daemon?
  • Has Lua got threads?
  • How to access the Windows Registry?
  • Can Lua be used as a Web scripting language?
• Libraries
  • It's a compact language, but I need more libraries. Where to find them?
  • What GUI toolkits are available?
  • Rendering Graphics and Plots to a file?
  • How to interface to my C/C++ Libraries?
  • Is there a Foreign-Function Interface (FFI)?
• Interoperability
  • LuaJIT is significantly faster than vanilla Lua. What's the catch?
  • Using Lua with .NET or Java?
    • Lua with Java
    • Lua with .NET
  • I miss all those Python/Perl libraries; can I access them?
  • Can Lua interoperate with CORBA or Web Services?

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# 8/16/2009 04:30:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,

Lua for Windows - Short Introduction and Files

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Lua for Windows - A Short Introduction.

1. What is Lua?
2. What is Lua for Windows?
3. What comes with Lua for Windows?
4. Using Lua for Windows.
4.1 Running Lua Programs.
4.2 Editing Lua Programs.
4.3 Debugging Lua Programs.
4.4 Using Lua without command console.
5. Concise Overview of Lua Programming Language.
6. Libraries included with Lua for Windows.
7. Learn more about Lua.
8. Acknowledgments.

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1. What is Lua?

Lua is a small, fast, interpreted scripting language. Lua is the result of a merger of a configuration language (SOL) and a data entry language (DEL) . Lua's original goal was to be an extensible embedded scripting language inside software applications. Lua has been highly successful as an embedded scripting language and is used in many games, firmware and software applications. With the recent addition of modules, Lua now has a standard method to load libraries. Lua together with Lua libraries enables a complete standalone scripting language.

Lua's unique focus on extensibility, simplicity, efficiency and portability make it a small yet powerful scripting language. Lua is often used as a Domain Specific Language due to its small size, embeddability and portability. Lua supports a small set of general features and provides meta-mechanisms to allow the programmer to support programming styles of their choice.

Lua was developed by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes at the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), in Brazil.

Lua means Moon in Portuguese, so be ready for libraries with references to space or the moon, and enjoy.

2. What is Lua for Windows?

Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for the Lua scripting language on Windows.

Lua for Windows combines Lua binaries, Lua libraries with a Lua-capable editor in a single install package for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Lua for Windows contains everything you need to write, run and debug Lua scripts on Windows. A wide variety of libraries and examples are included that are ready to use with Microsoft Windows. Lua for Windows runs on Windows 2000 and newer versions of Windows. Lua and its associated libraries are also available for other operating systems, so most scripts will be automatically cross-platform.

Parent Directory	cd	im	iup	md5
date	loop	lpeg	luabitops	alien
copas	lanes	lpack	luaex	luagd
luagl	rings	wxlua	scripts	luasocket
lualogging	metalua	lrexlib	luacurl	luatask
luaunit	luaexpat	lua5.1	luacom	luadoc
luasql	luaxml	luazip	coxpcall	stdlib
luainterface	lexecutor	vstruct	classlib	luafilesystem
luaprofiler	Lua PiL Book.url 49 octets	luaforwindows.html 53455 octets	luarefv51.html 168347 octets

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# 8/11/2009 03:48:00 AM, Comentários, Links para esta postagem,