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

By : Terry Norton
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide

By: Terry Norton

Overview of this book

For the absolute beginner to any concept of programming, writing a script can appear to be an impossible hurdle to overcome. The truth is, there are only three simple concepts to understand: 1) having some type of information; 2) using the information; and 3) communicating the information. Each of these concepts is very simple and extremely important. These three concepts are combined to access the feature set provided by Unity. "Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide" assumes that you know nothing about programming concepts. First you will learn the absolute basics of programming using everyday examples that you already know. As you progress through the book, you will find that C# is not a foreign language after all, because you already know the words. With a few keywords and using substitution, before you know it, you'll be thinking in code. The book starts by explaining in simple terms the three concepts you need for writing C# code and scripts: 1) variables to hold information; 2) methods (functions) to use the information; and 3) Dot Syntax to communicate the information where it's needed. The book builds on these concepts to open up the world of C# coding and Unity scripting. You will use this new power to access the features provided in Unity's Scripting Reference. The first half of this book is devoted to the code writing beginner. The concepts of variables, methods, Dot Syntax, and decision processing are fully explained. Since C# is an actual programming language, we take advantage of this to develop a State Machine to help control and organize each phase of a Unity project. Once the basic programming concepts are established and we have some State Machine organization, the features and power of Unity are accessed using the Scripting Reference. If you're looking to learn C# for Unity then this is the book that offers everything you need and more - so discover what C# offers today and see your work come to life as complete games!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Gaurav Garg was born in Delhi. He is a Computer Applications graduate from Indira Gandhi University and has passed his higher secondary from the CBSE Board. During his under- graduate studies, he started his career as an indie game programmer, but didn't gain success because of a lack of or say, no experience. After this, he learnt that passion is not the only thing for geting success; experience matters a lot. Then he joined Isis Design Service as a game programmer, where he published a few iOS titles and one web-based game. He worked there for a year and a half. Then, he moved to Jump Games, Pune, and worked on a few good game titles such as Realsteal and Dancing with the Stars. Now, he works for Mr Manvender Shukul in Lakshya Digital Pvt ltd. and has been there since the past year.

He hasn't reviewed a book before, but one of his articles was published in Game Coder Magazine. The article was on Unity3D. You can download the article from his personal website, http://gauravgarg.com/.

Kristian Hedeholm studied Computer Science at Aarhus University and now works as a game programmer at Serious Games Interactive in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since Kristian joined the game industry back in 2009, he has worked on a couple of released casual games. In addition to this, he is also the chairman of an association called Young Game Developers, which aims to spread information about game development among children and teenagers. In the future, Kristian will use his "computer mind" to develop artificial intelligence and dynamic difficulty adjustment systems for computer games.

When Kristian isn't developing games, teaching others to develop games, or playing games himself, he thinks about them a lot!