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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Write code to implement systems and structures for complex projects.

Level 2 Application scripting

Joy Horvath

Instructional Designer

U_Intermediate_3_Statics.mp4

Learn how to create static variables, methods, and classes. 

Games

Ensure data is preserved throughout an application session by using the Unity DontDestroyOnLoad method

Modify a GameObject with a script that contains the variables to be saved between Scenes

Recognize when to use static classes, singletons, and static variables to implement data persistence

Implement data persistence across scenes and user sessions

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Enemy
{
    //Static variables are shared across all instances
    //of a class.
    public static int enemyCount = 0;

    public Enemy()
    {
        //Increment the static variable to know how many
        //objects of this class have been created.
        enemyCount++;
    }
}


using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Game
{
    void Start () 
    {
        Enemy enemy1 = new Enemy();
        Enemy enemy2 = new Enemy();
        Enemy enemy3 = new Enemy();

        //You can access a static variable by using the class name
        //and the dot operator.
        int x = Enemy.enemyCount;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Player : MonoBehaviour 
{
    //Static variables are shared across all instances
    //of a class. 
    public static int playerCount = 0;

    void Start()
    {
        //Increment the static variable to know how many
         //objects of this class have been created.
        playerCount++;
    }
}


using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerManager : MonoBehaviour 
{
    void Start()
    {
        //You can access a static variable by using the class name
        //and the dot operator.
        int x = Player.playerCount;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public static class Utilities 
{
    //A static method can be invoked without an object
    //of a class. Note that static methods cannot access
    //non-static member variables.
    public static int Add(int num1, int num2)
    {
        return num1 + num2;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class UtilitiesExample : MonoBehaviour 
{
    void Start()
    {
        //You can access a static method by using the class name
        //and the dot operator.
        int x = Utilities.Add (5, 6);
    }
}


Statics

1. Statics

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