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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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Harrison Ferrone Harrison Ferrone
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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

Using constructors

Class constructors are special methods that fire automatically when a class instance is created, which is similar to how the Start method runs in LearningCurve. Constructors build the class according to its blueprint:

  • If a constructor is not specified, C# generates a default one. The default constructor sets any variables to their default type values—numeric values are set to zero, Booleans to false, and reference types (classes) to null.
  • Custom constructors can be defined with parameters, just like any other method, and are used to set class variable values at initialization.
  • A class can have multiple constructors.

Constructors are written like regular methods but with a few differences; for instance, they need to be public, have no return type, and the method name is always the class name. As an example, let's add a basic constructor with no parameters to the Character class and set the name field to something other than null.

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