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Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017

You're reading from   Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 Learn C# Programming by building fun and interactive games with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478922
Length 290 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Micael DaGraça Micael DaGraça
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Preface 1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready 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. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries 6. Loops 7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods 8. Let's Make a Game! – from Idea to Development 9. Starting Your First Game 10. Writing GameManager 11. The Game Level 12. The User Interface 13. Collectables 14. Enemies 15. Audio, 3D Games, and Export

Loops in statements


You have learned the fundamentals of the three basic loops. Let's have some fun now. You can write virtually any code inside a loop block.

Why don't we insert some if statements inside our code block and ask Unity to make the decisions? Let's iterate through a for loop 100 times and print on the Unity Console some useful information about the i variable's value, as follows:

Checking whether a number is zero, even, or odd

Let's analyze the code:

  • Line 9: This is the declaration of the for loop. The condition of our loop is i < 100, which means that we will run the loop 100 times with the value of i increasing from 0 to 99.
  • Line 11: This contains a simple if statement that checks whether i is equal to 0. As the i value increments every time the loop runs through, line 12 will be executed only once, on the first loop run.
  • Line 14: This contains if statements that call the IsNumberEven function, which returns bool. I know this feels very complicated now, but it is deliberate...
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