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

In this lesson, you will attempt to add a speedometer and RPM display for your vehicle in Prototype 1. In doing so, you will learn the process of doing online research when trying to implement new features and troubleshoot bugs in your projects. As you will find out, adding a new feature is very rarely as simple as it initially seems - you inevitably run into unexpected complications and errors that usually require a little online research. In this lesson, you will learn how to do that so that you can do it with your own projects.

By the end of this lesson, the vehicle will behave with more realistic physics,  and there will be a speedometer and Revolution per Minute (RPM) display., 

Make the vehicle use forces

Prevent car from flipping over

Add a speedometer display

Add an RPM display

Prevent driving in mid-air

Lesson Recap

Researching possible solutions

Use an AI tool

Troubleshooting

Final Thoughts

Review the goals and uses of a portfolio.

Plan your own portfolio using a flowchart. 

Overview

Review portfolio types and tools

What goes in a portfolio?

Selecting examples for your portfolio

Organizing content

Creating your portfolio

Next steps

In this exercise, you will be challenged to debug a provided project so that it can run as intended.

ErrorProject.zip

Download the provided assets and import them into a new Unity project

Review the project

Debug the app

Create a WebGL build of the debugged app

Criteria

Submission

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

Unity Junior Programmer

Kickstart your programming career with Unity's Junior Programmer Pathway. Learn coding fundamentals, C#, and game development to create your first interactive projects. Start learning for free!

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We recommend that you have basic knowledge of Unity or complete 

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.

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Junior Programmer

Course Introduction

Install Unity Software

Unit 1 - Introduction

Lesson 1.1 - Start your 3D Engines 

Lesson 1.2 - Pedal to the Metal

Create and apply your first script

Add a comment in the Update() method

Give the vehicle a forward motion

Use a Vector3 to move forward

Customize the vehicle’s speed

Add RigidBody components to objects

Duplicate and position the obstacles

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

Example of Project Charter.pdf

Project Design Doc TEMPLATE - [GDOC].pdf

Recap the phases of production

Overview of project planning

Design documents and project plans

Managing projects and tracking progress

Exercise: Identify tools to support your project management and tracking

Preparing to publish

Releasing your project

Operations activities and retrospectives

Summary

Quiz 1

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

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

Lesson Plan 2.3 - Random Animal Stampede.pdf

Create a spawn manager

Spawn an animal if S is pressed

Spawn random animals from array

Randomize the spawn location

Change the perspective of the camera

Lab 2 - New Project with Primitives

Create a new Unity Project and rename your scene 

Create a background plane

Create primitive Player with a new material

Position camera based on project type

Enemies, obstacles, projectiles & materials

Export a Unity Package backup file

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

Challenge 3 - Starter Files.zip

Warning

The player can’t control the balloon

The background only moves when the game is over

No objects are being spawned 

Fireworks appear to the side of the balloon

The background is not repeating properly

Bonus: The balloon can float way too high

Bonus: The balloon can drop below the ground

Hints

Create PlayerController and plan your code

Basic movement from user input

Constrain the Player’s movement

Code Cleanup and Export Backup

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

Prototype 4 - Starter Files.zip

Create project and open scene

Set up the player and add a texture

Create a focal point for the camera

Rotate the focal point by user input

Add forward force to the player

Move in direction of focal point

Write a for-loop to spawn 3 enemies

Give the for-loop a parameter

Destroy enemies if they fall off

Increase enemyCount with waves

Spawn Powerups with new waves

Challenge 4 - Starter Files.zip

Hitting an enemy sends it back towards you

A new wave spawns when the player gets a powerup

The powerup never goes away

2 enemies are spawned in every wave

The enemy balls are not moving anywhere

Bonus: The player needs a turbo boost 

Bonus: The enemies never get more difficult

Want even more challenges?

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?

Create Title text and menu buttons

Add a DifficultyButton script

Call SetDifficulty on button click

Make your buttons start the game

Deactivate Title Screen on StartGame

Use a parameter to change 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

Introduction to real-time 3D experience design

Set up version control

Junior-Programmer-Starter-Files.zip

What is version control?

Who uses version control?

Select your version control tool

Get started with GitHub Desktop

Create a new repo on your hard drive

Download, open, and start tracking your project

Do an initial commit and publish your repo

How does version control work?

Explore the sample project

Project_Brief.pdf

Before you begin

Welcome to the project

Explore the simulation

Review the project brief

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

Manage Scene Flow and Data

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Lesson 6.2 - Research and Troubleshooting

1. Make the vehicle use forces

2. Prevent car from flipping over

3. Add a speedometer display

4. Add an RPM display

5. Prevent driving in mid-air

6. Lesson Recap

Complete this tutorial