You're reading from Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide The beauty of this book is that it assumes absolutely no knowledge of coding at all. Starting from very first principles it will end up giving you an excellent grounding in the writing of C# code and scripts.

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849696586

Length 292 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Terry Norton

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills FREE CHAPTER

2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts

3. Getting into the Details of Variables

4. Getting into the Details of Methods

5. Making Decisions in Code

6. Using Dot Syntax for Object Communication

7. Creating the Gameplay is Just a Part of the Game

8. Developing the State Machine

9. Start Building a Game and Get the Basic Structure Running

10. Moving Around, Collisions, and Keeping Score

11. Summarizing Your New Coding Skills

A. Initial State Machine files

B. Completed code files for Chapters 9 and 10

C. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Chapter 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts

A programming language such as C# can appear to be very complicated at first but in reality, there are two parts that form its foundation. These parts are variables and methods. Therefore, understanding these critical parts is a prerequisite for learning any of the other features of C#. Being as critical as they are, they are very simple concepts to understand. Using these variable and method foundation pieces, we'll be introduced to the C# building blocks used to create Unity scripts.

For those people who get sweaty palms just thinking of the word script, wipe your hands and relax. In this chapter, I'm going to use terms that are already familiar to you to introduce the building blocks of programming. The following are the concepts introduced in this chapter:

Using variables in a script
Using methods in a script
The class which is a container for variables and methods
Turning a script into a Component
Components...

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Chapter 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts

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