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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

By : Philip Walker
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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

By: Philip Walker

Overview of this book

Unity Certified Programmer is a global certification program by Unity for anyone looking to become a professional Unity developer. The official Unity programmer exam will not only validate your Unity knowledge and skills, but also enable you to be part of the Unity community. This study guide will start by building on your understanding of C# programming and take you through the process of downloading and installing Unity. You’ll understand how Unity works and get to grips with the core objectives of the Unity exam. As you advance, you’ll enhance your skills by creating an enjoyable side-scrolling shooter game that can be played within the Unity Editor or any recent Android mobile device. This Unity book will test your knowledge with self-assessment questions and help you take your skills to an advanced level by working with Unity tools such as the Animator, Particle Effects, Lighting, UI/UX, Scriptable Objects, and debugging. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed a solid understanding of the different tools in Unity and understand how to create impressive Unity applications by making the most of its toolset.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Full Unity Programmer Mock Exam

The core exam skills covered in this chapter

We will look at programming core interactions:

  • Implementing and configuring game object behavior and physics

We will also look at working in the art pipeline:

  • Understanding materials, textures, and shaders, and writing scripts that interact with Unity's rendering API
  • Understanding lighting and writing scripts that interact with Unity's lighting API
  • Understanding two-dimensional and three-dimensional animation and writing scripts that interact with Unity's animation API
  • Understanding particle systems and effects and writing scripts that interact with Unity's particle system API

We will cover the programming for scene and environment design:

  • Identifying...