title: How do I actually get Lua to work?
body: <p>I'm doing a game development course and we are playing around with the Love2D game engine. I'm quite new to programming and I'd like to learn some more Lua before going further but I'm having a hard time actually getting Lua to work at all. What I mean by that is the whole installing and downloading part seems to be quite different from other languages I've played around with in the past. </p>
  
  <p>With Python for example you just download the interpreter and whatnot and you're good to go.</p>
  
  <p>I've downloaded Lua for Windows. <a href="https://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/" rel="nofollow">https://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/</a></p>
  
  <p>It installs Lua and a text editor called SciTE. However I'm not sure where to go from here. I'm using sublime text editor and saving my programs as example.lua but I can't seem to get the programs to run.</p>
  
  <p>Would anybody more enlightened in the ways of lua care to help a beginner out?</p>