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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020

You're reading from Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020 An enjoyable and intuitive approach to getting started with C# programming and Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207806

Length 366 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Cross Platform Game Development

Author (1):

Harrison Ferrone

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting to Know Your Environment

2. The Building Blocks of Programming FREE CHAPTER

3. Diving into Variables, Types, and Methods

4. Control Flow and Collection Types

5. Working with Classes, Structs, and OOP

6. Getting Your Hands Dirty with Unity

7. Movement, Camera Controls, and Collisions

8. Scripting Game Mechanics

9. Basic AI and Enemy Behavior

10. Revisiting Types, Methods, and Classes

11. Introducing Stacks, Queues, and HashSets

12. Exploring Generics, Delegates, and Beyond

13. The Journey Continues

14. Pop Quiz Answers

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Applying OOP in Unity

If you're around OOP languages enough, you'll eventually hear the phrase everything is an object whispered like a secret prayer between developers. Following OOP principles, everything in a program should be an object, but GameObjects in Unity can represent your classes and structs. However, that's not to say all objects in Unity have to be in the physical scene, so we can still use our newfound programmed classes behind the scenes.

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Authors (1)

Harrison Ferrone

Harrison Ferrone

Harrison Ferrone was born in Chicago, IL. Most days, you can find him creating instructional content for LinkedIn Learning or trying to learn something new. He holds various fancy looking pieces of paper from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College Chicago, and despite being a proud alumnus, most of these are stored in a basement somewhere. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back. Throughout all this, he's bought many books, acquired a few cats, worked abroad, and continually wondered why Neuromancer isn't on more course syllabi

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