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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2021

You're reading from   Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2021 Kickstart your C# programming and Unity journey by building 3D games from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813945
Length 428 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Harrison Ferrone Harrison Ferrone
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting to Know Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. The Building Blocks of Programming 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. Saving, Loading, and Serializing Data 13. Exploring Generics, Delegates, and Beyond 14. The Journey Continues 15. Pop Quiz Answers
16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Exploring Generics, Delegates, and Beyond

The more time you spend programming, the more you start thinking about systems. Structuring how classes and objects interact, communicate, and exchange data are all examples of systems we've worked with so far; the question now is how to make them safer and more efficient.

Since this will be the last practical chapter of the book, we'll be going over examples of generic programming concepts, delegation, event creation, and error handling. Each of these topics is a large area of study in its own right, so take what you learn here and expand on it in your projects. After we complete our practical coding, we'll finish up with a brief overview of design patterns and how they'll play a part in your programming journey going forward.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Generic programming
  • Using delegates
  • Creating events and subscriptions
  • Throwing and handling errors
  • ...
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