LUA tutorial / newbie, nob getting started and advanced links.

NOB? here you go:

Fast start

• Download 'LUA For Windows' - A batteries included Lua installation on Windows.
• http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/downloads/list
• Write code in an online interpreter
• http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo

Know your LUA

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)

Reference cards

• Lua 5.1 Reference Manual
• http://www.tdistler.com/media/docs/luarefv51.pdf
• http://lua-users.org/wiki/
• http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/

A bit more advanced stuff

• Dynamic invocation
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791234/lua-call-function-from-a-string-with-function-name
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eval#Lua
• BitwiseOperators
• http://lua-users.org/wiki/BitwiseOperators
• Recommended - http://bitop.luajit.org/
• Notes - Problems with unsigned numbers detected!

Integrating LUA with Eclipse

• http://lunareclipse.sourceforge.net/
• Download - http://sourceforge.net/projects/lunareclipse/

Hope this helps.