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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

Using the term method instead of function

You are constantly going to see the words function and method used everywhere as you learn Unity.

Note

The words function and method truly mean the same thing in Unity. They do the same thing.

Since you are studying C#, and C# is an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language, I will use the word "method" throughout this book, just to be consistent with C# guidelines. It makes sense to learn the correct terminology for C#. Also, UnityScript and Boo are OOP languages. The authors of the Scripting Reference probably should have used the word method instead of function in all documentation.

Note

From now on I'm going to use the words method or methods in this book. When I refer to the functions shown in the Scripting Reference, I'm going to use the word method instead, just to be consistent throughout this book.