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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity

By : Harrison Ferrone
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity

4.4 (47)
By: Harrison Ferrone

Overview of this book

It's the ability to write custom C# scripts for behaviors and game mechanics that really takes Unity the extra mile. That's where this book can help you as a new programmer! Harrison Ferrone, in this seventh edition of the bestselling series will take you through the building blocks of programming and the C# language from scratch while building a fun and playable game prototype in Unity. This book will teach you the fundamentals of OOPs, basic concepts of C#, and Unity engine with lots of code samples, exercises and tips to go beyond the book with your work. You will write C# scripts for simple game mechanics, perform procedural programming, and add complexity to your games by introducing intelligent enemies and damage-dealing projectiles. You will explore the fundamentals of Unity game development, including game design, lighting basics, player movement, camera controls, collisions, and more with every passing chapter. Note: The screenshots in the book display the Unity editor in full-screen mode for a comprehensive view. Users can easily reference color versions of images by downloading them from the GitHub repository or the graphics bundle linked in the book.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Defining classes

Back in Chapter 2, The Building Blocks of Programming, we talked briefly about how classes are blueprints for objects and mentioned that they can be treated as custom variable types. We also learned that the LearningCurve script is a class, but a special one that Unity can attach to objects in the scene. The main thing to remember with classes is that they are reference types—that is, when they are assigned or passed to another variable, the original object is referenced, not a new copy. We'll get into this after we discuss structs. However, before any of that, we need to understand the basics of creating classes.

For now, we're going to set aside how classes and scripts work in Unity and focus on how they are created and used in C#. Classes are created using the class keyword, as follows:

accessModifier class UniqueName
{
    Variables 
    Constructors
    Methods
}

Any variables or methods declared inside a class belong to that class and are accessed...

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