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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020 - Fifth Edition

By : Harrison Ferrone
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020 - Fifth Edition

By: Harrison Ferrone

Overview of this book

Over the years, the Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity series has established itself as a popular choice for getting up to speed with C#, a powerful and versatile programming language that can be applied in a wide array of application areas. This book presents a clear path for learning C# programming from the ground up without complex jargon or unclear programming logic, all while building a simple game with Unity. This fifth edition has been updated to introduce modern C# features with the latest version of the Unity game engine, and a new chapter has been added on intermediate collection types. Starting with the basics of software programming and the C# language, you’ll learn the core concepts of programming in C#, including variables, classes, and object-oriented programming. Once you’ve got to grips with C# programming, you’ll enter the world of Unity game development and discover how you can create C# scripts for simple game mechanics. Throughout the book, you’ll gain hands-on experience with programming best practices to help you take your Unity and C# skills to the next level. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage the C# language to build your own real-world Unity game development projects.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Time for action – adding comments

Visual Studio also provides a handy auto-generated commenting feature; type in three backslashes on the line preceding any line of code (variables, methods, classes, and more) and a summary comment block will appear. Open up LearningCurve and add in three backslashes above the ComputeAge() method:

You should see a three-line comment with a description of the method generated by Visual Studio from the method's name, sandwiched between two <summary> tags. You can, of course, change the text, or add new lines by hitting Enter just as you would in a text document; just make sure not to touch the tags.

The useful part about these detailed comments is clear when you want to know something about a method you've written. If you've used a triple forward-slash comment, all you need to do is hover over the method name anywhere it's called and Visual Studio will pop your summary:

We still need to understand how everything we've learned in this chapter applies in the Unity game engine, which is what we'll be focusing on in the next section!