Slides of the introductory presentation I gave while facilitating my "Lua+TDD" activity with MadriÁgil

1. +
TDD
Enrique García Cota (@otikik)

2. Lua
Small, Fast, Embeddable
http://www.lua.org/
Image from: http://trestizas.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/radioproyectos-purposedes-y-eabe11/

3. Videogames
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lua-scripted_video_games

4. Programs
Apache (mod_lua)
Adobe Lightroom
Renoise
VLC
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)

5. TDD libs
Luaunit
http://phil.freehackers.org/programs/luaunit/
Telescope ← my favorite
https://github.com/norman/telescope

6. Dojos, Katas …
Koans?

8. Koans:
“Failing tests that illustrate
language features”
Learn a language through tests
Original idea: rubykoans.com

9. @ecomba:
“You can't call it Koans if you take out the Zen stuff”

10. Lua Missions
(A.K.A. Lua Koans)

11. Install Lua
Windows: LuaForWindows.exe
Mac: brew install lua
Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install lua5.1
run Missions
git clone git://github.com/kikito/lua_missions.git
cd lua_missions/missions
lua missions.lua
More info @ https://github.com/kikito/lua_missions

12. Thanks!
Enrique García Cota (@otikik)
egarcia@splendeo.es / kikito@gmail.com