Creating Properties

Ternary Operator

Statics

Method Overloading 

Generics

Inheritance

Polymorphism

Member Hiding

Overriding

Interfaces

Extension Methods 

Namespaces

Lists and Dictionaries 

Coroutines

Quaternions

Delegates

Attributes

Events

Polymorphism and casting

This collection of tutorials is an excellent reference point for teachers or students who want to review the higher-level conceptual concepts for developing with Unity. The tutorials included here are intended for people who already have experience with basic scripting and want to understand at a more conceptual level what they’re doing and what is possible with scripting. These skills and concepts are fundamental for anyone who is considering entering the field of computer science.

Before reviewing the tutorials here, it is recommended that you understand all of the concepts covered in “Beginner Scripting” and have completed at least one or two more complex projects or creator kids, such as:

This project contains essential knowledge for intermediate level scripting with these video tutorials. 

Intermediate Scripting

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Understand high-level programming concepts (such as inheritance, encapsulation, data abstraction, and polymorphism) and how they are implemented. 

Level 2 Programming theory

Joy Horvath

Instructional Designer

U_Intermediate_5_Generics.mp4

How to create and use generic methods and classes. 

Games

Enable easier readability and debugging by correctly organizing classes to include only singular purpose code

Add new functionality to non-editable classes by applying extension methods

Organize and prevent conflicts between scripts by using namespaces

Manage the communication of a GameObject’s status changes to other objects in the application by using Events 

Write efficient, organized, and comprehensible code by correctly implementing the principles of object-oriented programming

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SomeClass 
{
    //Here is a generic method. Notice the generic
    //type 'T'. This 'T' will be replaced at runtime
    //with an actual type. 
    public T GenericMethod<T>(T param)
    {
        return param;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SomeOtherClass : MonoBehaviour 
{
    void Start () 
    {
        SomeClass myClass = new SomeClass();

        //In order to use this method you must
        //tell the method what type to replace
        //'T' with.
        myClass.GenericMethod<int>(5);
    }
}


using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

//Here is a generic class. Notice the generic type 'T'.
//'T' will be replaced with an actual type, as will also 
//instances of the type 'T' used in the class.
public class GenericClass <T>
{
    T item;

    public void UpdateItem(T newItem)
    {
        item = newItem;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class GenericClassExample : MonoBehaviour 
{
    void Start () 
    {        
        //In order to create an object of a generic class, you must
        //specify the type you want the class to have.
        GenericClass<int> myClass = new GenericClass<int>();

        myClass.UpdateItem(5);
    }
}


Generics

1. Generics

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