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Recap - Till 120

Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's Lua journey — lesson 34 of 90.

Challenge

Beginner

Write a program that gets the user's age as input.

The program will output (print) the number of missing years till 120 (in a specific format, shown below).

For example, for input 25, the expected output is "95 years till 120".

Make sure to not print anything else!

Try it yourself

All lessons in Fundamentals

1Introduction

The Language Hello World!Comments

4Operators 2 Relational & Logic

Equality Operators Relational Operators The 'and' Operator The 'or' Operator The 'not' Operator Short-Circuit Evaluation Truthy and Falsy Values Recap - Simple Logic

7Basic Conditional Logic

The if-then Statement The if-then-else Statement The elseif Statement Recap - Treasure Chest

10Tables Part 1: List-Style

What is a Table?Creating a Table Accessing Elements by Index Modifying Elements by Index The Length Operator '#'table.insert()table.remove()Recap - Manage Party Members

13Project: Simple Potion Shop

Project Setup Adding a Potion

Project lesson

Displaying the Inventory

Project lesson

Calculating Total Stock Value

Project lesson

Finding a Specific Potion

Project lesson

Selling a Potion

Project lesson

2Variables and Data Types

What is a Variable?Numbers Strings Booleans The Value 'nil'The type() Function Naming Conventions Recap - Character Profile

5Basic Output

Printing Literals Printing Variables Printing Multiple Values Combining Strings & Variables The tostring() Function Input Cast Recap - Status ReportRecap - Till 120

8String Manipulation Basics

string.len()string.upper & string.lower string.sub()string.rep()string.find()Recap - Format Username

11Tables 2: Dictionary-Style

Key-Value Pairs Creating Dictionary-Style Tabl Accessing - Bracket Notation Accessing with Dot Notation Adding and Modifying Pairs Removing Pairs with nil Recap - Item Properties

14Variable Scope

Global Variables Local Variables Why Use Local Variables?Scope and Blocks Recap - Scope Puzzle

3Operators 1 Arithmetic & Conc

Arithmetic Operators Modulo Operator Exponentiation Operator String Concatenation Operator Precedence Recap - Simple Calculations

6Project: Character Stats Disp

Welcome Message Declare Character Stats

Project lesson

Display Basic Stats

Project lesson

Add a Boolean Flag

Project lesson

Project lesson

9Functions Basics

Declaring a Function Calling a Function Functions with Parameters Functions with Multiple Params The 'return' Statement Recap - Area Calculator

12Loops Basics

The while Loop The repeat-until Loop The Numeric for Loop for Loop with a Step The 'break' Statement Recap - Countdown

15Final Challenges

Recap - Player Turn Recap - Simple Database Recap - Sum of Even Numbers