I've finally took a step towards programming something less babyish than Visual Basic, yet C, C#, and C++ all look too confusing to me. I've decided to take up practicing Lua.

Here's some of my first chunks:

> YourMom = 5+5-10+2*5 -- The variable YourMom is set to do a bunch of math.
> print(YourMom) -- Do the problem :3

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> WhoTheFuckAmI = "I'm Sonicfan574, you asshole." -- Tell Lua who I am
> print(WhoTheFuckAmI) -- Make Lua tell me who I am

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> Sonic = 1 -- Sonic is #1.
> Tails = 2 -- Tails is #2.
> Knuckles = 3 -- Knux is #3.
> print(Sonic+Tails+Knuckles) -- Add it up.

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Haha, this is fun. I'll have to post more Lua chunks later.

Oh, and if anyone's thinking of trying this:
http://www.lua.org/download.html - Lua source code, advanced users only.
http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/download.html - Lua binaries. There's a better one at http://luaforwindows.luaforge.net/
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm - Notepad++, an advanced alternative to Microsoft Notepad, also includes scripting editors, Lua is included.

Do you ever finish anything?

Just for questions (and because I dont want to have to Wiki it),what IS Lua?

I'ma try writing a little program in Lua. Hope this works.

New average grade calculator ftw.
This time, you can execute the thing without changing anything, that is, if you have the same class setup as me. It prompts you for your grades within the program.

Didn't feel like adding colours.

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print("Welcome to Sonicfan574's Class Average Finder.")
print("Enter your 0 Hour grade...")
Class0 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 0 Hr grade
print("Alright, got it, your 0 Hour grade is " .. Class0 .. "%. Please enter your 1st Hour grade...")
Class1 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 1st Hr grade
print("Alright, got it, your 1st Hour grade is " .. Class1 .. "%. Please enter your 2nd Hour grade...")
Class2 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 2nd Hr grade
print("Alright, got it, your 2nd Hour grade is " .. Class2 .. "%. Please enter your 3rd Hour grade...")
Class3 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 3rd Hr grade
print("Alright, got it, your 3rd Hour grade is " .. Class3 .. "%. Please enter your 4th Hour grade...")
Class4 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 4th Hr grade
print("Alright, got it, your 4th Hour grade is " .. Class4 .. "%. Please enter your 5th Hour grade...")
Class5 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 5th Hr grade
print("Alright, got it, your 5th Hour grade is " .. Class5 .. "%. Please enter your 6th Hour grade, this is the last one.")
Class6 = io.read() -- Prompt user for 6th Hr grade
print("Got it, your 6th Hr grade is " .. Class6 .. "%.")
print("That's it, calculating your average...")
Divide = Class0+Class1+Class2+Class3+Class4+Class5+Class6 -- Add up the grades
FinalResult = Divide/7 -- Divide the grades by the number of classes
print("Your grade average is " .. FinalResult .. ".")
print("Thanks for using Sonicfan574's Class Average Finder!")

Made a neat program that can reverse words/sentences and save it to a file.

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-- Reverser v1
-- Sonicfan574

-- I would not recommend modifying anything in here. You can do everything from the Lua command line.

-- This is the function that will reverse sentences.
-- Type Reverser() into the command line after dofile'ing.
function Reverser()
print("Please enter the sentence you would like to reverse")
rev = io.read()
print(string.reverse(rev))
end

-- This is the function that can save reversed sentences to a text file.
-- Type RevSave() into the command line after reversing something.
function RevSave()
file = io.open("Reverses.txt","a")
file:write(rev)
file:write("\n")
file:write(string.reverse(rev))
file:write("\n")
file:write("\n")
file:close()
print("Your latest reversed word has been added to the reversed sentences file.")
end

I discovered a 2D game engine called LOVE which uses Lua as a backend. It comes complete with physics and everything.

Unfortunately, it's hard to use. D:

Hopefully I'll get some demos done eventually.