About this course
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
Notes on Prerequisites:
This course is for beginners who are new to programming. There are no prerequisites for this course!