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Published inJul 2018
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Gabor Szauer
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Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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There are many books written about Lua. Some focus on using the language as a standalone tool, others on how to use the language in an embedded scripting environment. Here is a list of additional book resources in no particular order.

Programming In Lua

Ierusalimschy, Roberto. Programming in Lua, 4th edition. Lua.Org, 2016.

ISBN13: 9788590379867

Programming in Lua (PIL) is written by the creators of Lua. The book takes an example-based approach to teaching—many of the non trivial concepts in the book are explained with real world code samples. The first edition of Programming in Lua is available online, for free.

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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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