Course Introduction

Install Unity Software

Unit 1 - Introduction

Lesson 1.1 - Start your 3D Engines

Lesson 1.2 - Pedal to the Metal

Lesson 1.3 - High Speed Chase

Lesson 1.4 - Step into the Driver's Seat

Challenge 1 - Plane Programming

Lab 1 - Project Design Document

Introduction to project management and teamwork

Quiz 1

Lesson 1.1 - Start your 3D Engines 

Learn how to create new C# scripts, call basic functions, and use variables to modify the results of those functions.

In this first mission in the Junior Programmer pathway, you will program a car moving side-to-side on a floating road, trying to avoid (or hit) obstacles in the way. In addition to becoming familiar with the Unity editor and workflow, you will learn how to create new C# scripts and do some simple programming. By the end of the Unit, you will be able to call basic functions, then declare and tweak new variables to modify the results of those functions.

Player Control

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Ready to code? This guided learning Pathway will take you from zero to job-ready!

Welcome to Junior Programmer! Designed for anyone interested in learning to code or obtaining an entry-level Unity role, this pathway assumes a basic knowledge of Unity and has no math prerequisites. Junior Programmer prepares you to get Unity Certified so that you can demonstrate your job-readiness to employers.

Junior Programmer

Unit 2 - Introduction

Lesson 2.1 - Player Positioning

Lesson 2.2 - Food Flight

Lesson 2.3 - Random Animal Stampede

Lesson 2.4 - Collision Decisions

Challenge 2 - Play Fetch

Lab 2 - New Project with Primitives

Quiz 2

Mod the Cube

Quiz: Create with Code 1

Gain familiarity with some of the most important programming and Unity concepts, including if-then statements, random value generation, arrays, collision detection, prefabs, and instantiation.

In this Mission, you will program a top-down game with the objective of throwing food to hungry animals - who are stampeding towards you - before they can run past you. In order to do this, you will become much more familiar with some of the most important programming and Unity concepts, including if-then statements, random value generation, arrays, collision detection, prefabs, and instantiation. In completing this Unit, you will learn how to program a basic game with the ability to launch projectiles and maneuver the player to keep the game alive.

Basic Gameplay

Unit 3 - Introduction

Lesson 3.1 - Jump Force

Lesson 3.2 - Make the World Whiz By

Lesson 3.3 - Don't Just Stand There

Lesson 3.4 - Particles and Sound Effects

Challenge 3 - Balloons, Bombs, & Booleans

Lab 3 - Player Control

Quiz 3

Learn how to add music, sound effects, and visual particle effects to transform the experience of your project.

In this Mission, you will program a fast-paced endless side-scrolling runner game where the player needs to time jumps over oncoming obstacles to avoid crashing. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to add music and sound effects, completely transforming the experience of your projects. You will also learn how to create dynamic endless repeating backgrounds, which are critical for any side-scrolling games. Finally, you will learn to incorporate particle effects like splatters and explosions, which make your games so much more satisfying to play.

Sound and Effects

Unit 4 - Introduction

Lesson 4.1 - Watch Where You’re Going

Lesson 4.2 - Follow the Player

Lesson 4.3 - PowerUp and CountDown

Lesson 4.4 - For-Loops For Waves

Challenge 4 - Soccer Scripting

Lab 4 - Basic Gameplay

Quiz 4

Learn how to implement new gameplay mechanics including powerups and increasing difficulty.

In this Mission, you will program an arcade-style Sumo battle with the objective of knocking increasingly difficult waves of enemies off of a floating island, using power ups to help defeat them. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement new gameplay mechanics into your projects, which are new rules or systems that make the game more interesting to play. On one hand, you will learn to program a powerup, which give the player a temporary advantage. On the other hand, you will learn to program increasingly difficult enemy waves, which make survival more challenging for the player. A good balance of powerups and increasing difficulty make for a much more interesting gameplay experience.

Gameplay Mechanics

Unit 5 - Introduction

Lesson 5.1 - Clicky Mouse

Lesson 5.2 - Keeping Score

Lesson 5.3 - Game Over

Lesson 5.4 - What’s the Difficulty?

Challenge 5 - Whack-a-Food

Lab 5 - Swap out your Assets

Quiz 5

Introduction to user feedback and testing

Learn how to implement a User Interface - or UI - into your projects, such as a title screen and score display.

In this Mission, you will program a game to test the player’s reflexes, where the goal is to click and destroy objects randomly tossed in the air before they can fall off the screen. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement a User Interface - or UI - into your projects. You will add a title screen with a difficulty select menu that will control how challenging the gameplay is, you will add a score display that will track how many points the player has earned, and you will add a Game Over screen, which will allow the player to restart and try again. In learning these skills, you will be able to create a fully “playable” experience that the user can enjoy from start to finish without having to restart the application to try it again.

User Interface

Next Steps - Introduction

Lesson 6.1 - Project Optimization

Lesson 6.2 - Research and Troubleshooting

Lesson 6.3 - Sharing your Projects

ECS Survival Guide

Career research and preparation

Introduction to portfolios

Debug the App

Counting Prototype

Quiz: Create with Code 2

Prepare to continue developing your Unity and C# skills independently, including learning how to complete your personal project.

In this Mission, you'll prepare to continue developing your Unity and C# skills independently, including learning how to complete your personal project and how to prepare for the Unity Certified User: Programming exam, which you can take through your school program, if available.

Publishing Your Project

Introduction to real-time 3D experience design

Set up version control

Explore the sample project

Principles of object-oriented programming

Create a scene flow

Implement data persistence between scenes

Implement data persistence between sessions

Quiz: Manage scene flow and data

Submission: Data persistence in a new repo

Learn about data persistence and an introduction to the core pillars of object-oriented programming.

In this mission, you’ll learn about data persistence, or how to manage the loading and unloading of data between both scenes and sessions. Along the way, you will be introduced to the core pillars of object-oriented programming, which will help you structure your code throughout the mission. There will only be one practical example throughout the mission, which will build on the new functionality you create with each tutorial. At the end of this mission, you’ll take everything you learned and apply it to a new project by building a persistent score system for a small game.

Manage Scene Flow and Data

Abstraction in object-oriented programming

Inheritance and polymorphism in object-oriented programming

Encapsulation in object-oriented programming

Profile code to identify issues

Job preparation: Junior Programmer

Quiz: Apply object-oriented principles

Submission: Programming theory in action

Deep-dive into the pillars of object-oriented programming and their application, then learn how to profile and optimize code.

In this mission, you’ll refactor the inventory project you completed in the previous mission using the pillars of object-oriented programming as a guide. You’ll deep dive into the inner workings of each pillar individually, so you can better understand its value in developing applications. Next, you’ll learn how to profile your code to identify any optimization bottlenecks that would slow down the final build of your application. To close out this mission, you’ll develop a small application for your portfolio that uses fully optimized code built on OOP principles. 

When you complete this mission you will complete the Junior Programmer pathway - CONGRATULATIONS!

Apply Object-Oriented Principles

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This quiz will assess your knowledge of the skills and concepts learned in Unit 1 of the course.

Unit 1 - Player Control

Unit 1 - Player Control (Unity EdLab Edition)

Navigate 3D space and the Unity Editor comfortably

Add and manipulate objects in the scene to position them where you want, including the camera

Control the layout of Unity Editor to suit your needs

Create C# scripts and apply them to objects

Use Visual Studio and a few of its basic features

Add Rigidbody and Collider components to allow objects to collide realistically 

Declare variables properly and initialize/assign them with appropriate access modifiers

Which Unity window contains a list of all the game objects currently in your scene?

The Hierarchy window contains a list of every GameObject in the current Scene. As objects are added and removed in the Scene, they will appear and disappear from the Hierarchy as well.

True or False: Visual Studio is not a part of Unity. You could use a different code editor to edit your C# scripts if you wanted to.

True. Visual Studio is just one of many editors you could use to edit your code, including editors like Atom, Sublime, or even a basic Text Editor.

What best describes the difference between the below images, where the car is in the second image is further along the road?

What best describes the difference between the below images, where the car is in the second image is further along the road?  Image 1                 Image 2  

The second car’s Transform value is higher than the first car’s.

The second car’s X location value is higher than the first car’s

The second car’s Y location value is higher than the first car’s

The second car’s Z location value is higher than the first car’s

You can tell which axis the car has moved along using the XYZ directional gizmo in the top-right, which shows the blue axis pointing forwards down the road.

In what order do you put the words when you are declaring a new variable? 

[data type] [access modifier] [variable value] [variable name] 

[data type] [access modifier] [variable name] [variable value]

[access modifier] [data type] [variable name] [variable value]

[variable name] [data type] [access modifier] [variable value]

Variables are always declared in the order: 

[access modifier] - public, private, etc 

[data type] - float, int, GameObject, etc 

[variable name] - speed, turnSpeed, player, offset, etc 

[variable value] - 1.0f, 2, new Vector3(0, 1, 0), etc

 Which of the following variables would be visible in the Inspector?

“public float speed” would be visible because it has the “public” modifier applied to it

What is a possible value for the horizontalInput variable returned by the Input.GetAxis() method?

Input.GetAxis returns a float value between -1 and 1, which means 0.52 is a possible value

 What is true about the following two lines of code?

They will both move an object the same distance

They will both move an object in the same direction

They will both move an object along the same axis

They will both rotate an object, but along different axes

Vector3.forward is the equivalent of (0, 0, 1), which has the same magnitude as (1, 0, 0), even though they’re in different directions, so they would both move an object the same distance, but along different axes

 Which of the following lines of code is using standard Unity naming conventions?`

“public float speed = 40.0f;” uses the correct naming conventions because all three of these terms should start with lowercase letters

 Which comment would best describe the code below?

// Rotates around the Y axis based on left/right arrow keys

// Rotates around the Z axis based on up/down arrow keys

// Rotates in an upward direction based on left/right arrow keys

// Moves object up/down based on the the left/right arrow keys

Vector3.up is the Y axis and it’s using the Horizontal input value, so it would rotate around the Y axis when the user presses the left/right arrows

Which of the following is NOT a possible way to navigate 3D space in the Scene view?

Press the 1 key to get into a first person view, or the 3 key to get into a third person view. 

Hold right-click and move your mouse to look around the scene.

Hold alt (option on MacOS), then right-click and drag to orbit around the framed object. 

Press F to frame the selected object in the Scene view.

The 1 and 3 keys do not help you navigate in the Scene view. All three other answer options are valid ways to navigate the Scene view. 

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