Lua at SIGCSE 2009

["Matthew M. Burke" <matthew@...>]

The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 
will hold their annual meeting in Chatanooga, TN the first week of March.

What does this have to do with Lua?

A number of short (3 hour) workshops are held in conjunction with the 
meeting.  This year I will be offering a workshop on Lua.  Details as 
follows:

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   The Lua programming language has a (relatively) long history of 
being used in a variety of programming contexts including game engines, 
industrial applications and embedded systems. Lua is being used in such 
high-profile applications as World of Warcraft, Adobe's Photoshop 
Lightroom, and Nmap.

   In this workshop you will gain experience both using Lua in a 
stand-alone manner as well as embedding it in a larger application. In 
addition, you will experience how Lua can be an effective tool for 
introducing students to different programming paradigms. The intended 
audience for this workshop includes the following: 1. Those interested 
in using an embedded language for scripting another application. 2. 
Those interested in language design. 3. Those interested in low-resource 
(embedded) systems.

   Participants are required to bring a laptop, however, there are no 
particular software requirements other than a decent text editor (not 
word processor). Lua source and binaries for Windows, OS X, and various 
*nixes will be provided.
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If you know any CS faculty types who might be attending SIGCSE, please 
encourage them to sign up for the workshop.  If you have suggestions for 
workshop content (keeping the description above in mind), please feel 
free to send them to me.

Matt