In this tutorial we show you some of the basics behind Lua. We introduce the most commonly used syntax and control structures and give a small outlook what else can be achieved in Lua.

The main purpose of this tutorial is to be a quick reference for the parts of lua's syntax, which are used in the tutorials. In contrary to the following scripting tutorials, it will not yet use any command specific to ug4.

Below you'll find the scripts sources. They are the same as in apps/tutorials/tut01_lua_basics.lua.