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The official definition of the Lua language is its reference manual, which is available online and also as a book:
Lua 5.1 Reference Manual
by R. Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo, W. Celes
Lua.org, August 2006
ISBN 85-903798-3-3

Also available in Portuguese , Spanish , and Russian .

The manuals for all released versions are available online.


Link: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/

This is totally free, but may be a bit complex to beginners. This is what you use if you already know what a "boolean" is.


Also available (but outdated by .1 versions)

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This is an online version of the first edition of the book
Programming in Lua
by Roberto Ierusalimschy
Lua.org, December 2003
ISBN 85-903798-1-7

The book is a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming, by Lua's chief architect. The first edition was aimed at Lua 5.0.


Link: http://www.lua.org/pil/


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Countertopic is awesome Tim.


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Great Tim, now we have some good ebooks and for free.


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Would either of these be usefull for me if I don't know any other programming languages at all?


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If they weren't why would he post them?


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He said that one of them was a bit complex for beginners, and...I really don't have any idea of what a "boolean" is....AND wikipedia isn't very explanatory, atleast not in terms that make sense to someone who is about to start whatever comes after algebra in school.


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If you don't know algebra you don't need Lua.


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The fact that I KNOW algebra was what I was trying to get across. Algebra isn't a problem for me, at all.


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Misread, and it's Geometry. But yeah www.lua.org.


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