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Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 - Third Edition

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Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Do you want to learn C# programming by creating fun and interactive games using the latest Unity 2017 platform? If so, look no further; this is the right book for you. Get started with programming C# so you can create 2D and 3D games in Unity. We will walk you through the basics to get you started with C# 7 and its latest features. Then, explore the use of C# 7 and its latest functional programming capabilities to create amazing games with Unity 2017. You will create your first C# script for Unity, add objects into it, and learn how to create game elements with it. Work with the latest functional programming features of C# and leverage them for great game scripting. Throughout the book, you will learn to use the new Unity 2017 2D tool set and create an interactive 2D game with it. You will make enemies appear to challenge your player, and discover some optimization techniques for great game performance. At the end, you will learn how to transform a 2D game into 3D, and you will be able to skill up to become a pro C# programmer with Unity 2017!
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using methods with objects


We learned that an object is a container for data. We can store specific data inside the object in its variables, and we can also write some more useful methods. OOP is a very neat and flexible concept. There is nothing stopping us from using our encapsulated object and passing it as a parameter to the other method. Let's write the following code as an example, where the class name is Person:

I removed most of the variables from the Person class to make this example clearer. If you are writing this example in the same Unity Project as the previous example, you will get some errors in the Family class we were using before. I recommend starting this example, in a new Unity Project and the class here is LearningObjects:

Yes, lots of new code to analyze, awesome! What we are trying to do here is create two instances of the Person object. We'll cross–reference them by assigning a public member spouse, and then call the method within the object class itself. Let's analyze...