Re: Programming beginners' documentation

["Simon Beesley" <simonbeesley@...>]

No wonder programming beginners are mystified.

> - download wscite from
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scintilla/scite176.zip?download
> - unzip somewhere
> - double-click SciTE.exe

This zip file doesn't contain SciTE.exe

> - write:
>   print("Hello, World!")
> - save as hello.lua
> - Press F5 /or Menu-Tools-Go

You need to download Lua5.1.exe (from Lua Binaries) as well, but even if
you've done this and have got hold of the correct zip file
(wscite176.zip), Scite can't find Lua5.1, not even if you've placed it 
in
one of the environment paths. On my setup, it gives the error message
"The system cannot find the file specified."

wxLua, on the other hand, works very nicely. Go to

http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/download.php

and download wxLua-2.8.7.0-MSW-bin.zip. Unzip it somewhere and 
double-click
wxlua.exe. Simple as that -- and no error messages when you run your 
first Lua program.

Simon