Re: "Game Development With LUA" book

[Noel Frankinet <nfr@...>]

Robert Osfield a écrit :
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I bought the book, "GAME DEVELPOMENT with LUA", in hope that it might 
> give some good insights in combining C++ and Lua, but basically it 
> failed to give me any insight, the online Lua reference manual was 
> much more useful.  It didn't really give me any insight into using Lua 
> either, again the online  reference manual and wiki were far more 
> useful.   The 2 of 5 would seems rather charitable to me, it scored 0 
> out of 5 for what I wanted from the book.
I also bought it, and I would'nt give much more points.
> I can thoroughly recommend "Programming in Lua", it arrived in the 
> post 10 days after, and found it a revelation, after many many years 
> of coding C++ its was like taking the blinkers off - blinkers that I 
> wasn't fully aware of until I had got a couple of chapters into the 
> book.  Lua is a very powerful yet modest langauge, and the book takes 
> you through step by step opening all the windows to new programming 
> vistas.  It is essential reading, an emphatic 5 out of 5.
I'm going to buy it right away.
> The only little hickup was that I never found a good tour of how to do 
> thorough C++ and Lua integration, this took reading online source 
> code, and spending time thinking about how to integrate the two and 
> experimenting with code.
I find the luna template a real gem to glue c++ to lua.
I find it so easy to use that I wonder why it seems so undurused, Is 
there something I am missing ?

Best regards
> Robert.
>
> On 9/12/06, *Andreas Rönnquist* <andreas.ronnquist@gmail.com 
> <mailto:andreas.ronnquist@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I was browsing an online store and saw the book "Game Development With
>     LUA" by Paul Schuytema and Mark Manyen - Is it any good? the two
>     reviews
>     that are up on amazon gives it a 2 and a 5 (out of 5) - so that isn't
>     very much help.
>
>     http://www.amazon.com/Game-Development-LUA/dp/1584504048/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_0_1/103-5958689-0189447?ie=UTF8
>     <http://www.amazon.com/Game-Development-LUA/dp/1584504048/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_0_1/103-5958689-0189447?ie=UTF8>
>
>     Anybody have any experience of it?
>
>     /Andreas Rönnquist
>     andreas.ronnquist@gmail.com <mailto:andreas.ronnquist@gmail.com>
>
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