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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207806
Length 366 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

A common Unity class

Before you wonder what a class looks like in C#, you should know that you've been working with a class this whole chapter. By default, every script created in Unity is a class, which you can see from the class keyword on line 5:

public class LearningCurve: MonoBehavior

MonoBehavior just means that this class can be attached to a GameObject in the Unity scene. In C#, classes can exist on their own, which we'll see when we create standalone classes in Chapter 5, Working with Classes and Object-Oriented Programming.

The terms script and class are sometimes used interchangeably in Unity resources. For consistency, I'll be referring to C# files as scripts if they're attached to GameObjects and as classes if they are standalone. 
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020 - Fifth Edition
Published in: Aug 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800207806
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