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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849696586
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Terry Norton Terry Norton
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

Easing into Unity's scripting documentation


It's great that Unity has so many classes in the Scripting Reference for us to use in a Unity project. Yet, for a beginner to scripting, even the amount of features available in the Scripting Reference can be overwhelming.

The good news is the Scripting Reference is exactly what the name implies. It's a reference. It's not meant to be a document you have to totally understand before you can begin writing scripts. A reference is a document you search when you need to know how to write the code to perform a specific task.

That's great, right? Sure it is, sort of. As a beginner, how do you know what to search for? This reminds me of school. Ask the teacher how to spell a word and the teacher always responded with "Look it up in the dictionary." Ok, but how do you find out how to spell a word in a dictionary if you don't know how to spell it to find it? I always thought the teacher's answer was rather lame and a waste of energy. I didn't want a definition...

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