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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting to Know Your Environment 2. The Building Blocks of Programming FREE CHAPTER 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

Summary

Congratulations, you're almost at the finish line! In this chapter, you learned about three new collection types, and how they can be used in different situations.

Stacks are great if you want to access your collection elements in the reverse order that they were added, queues are your ticket if you want to access your elements in sequential order, and both are ideal for temporary storage. The important difference between these collection types and lists or arrays is how they can be accessed with popping and peeking operations. Lastly, you learned about the almighty HashSet and its performance-based mathematical set operations. In situations where you need to work with unique values and perform additions, comparisons, or subtractions on large collections, these are key.

In the next chapter, you'll be taken a little deeper into the intermediate world of C# with delegates, generics, and more as you approach the end of this book. Even after all you've...

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