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.

In this Junior Programmer mission, you’ll expand on your foundational learning and create basic custom interactions with Unity. As you complete four practical projects, you’ll explore a range of concepts that support basic functionality, including loops, data types, references, script communication and UI. To complete the mission, you’ll create a simple prototype application for your portfolio. By the end of this mission you will have acquired all the skills needed to take the Unity Certified User: Programmer certification exam. Key details This mission will take you approximately 25 hours to complete. Take it at your own pace — you’ll receive XP each step of the way. Remember, you’re not alone: connect with the Unity community throughout the mission and check the Learn Live calendar for follow-along practical sessions with Unity established creators. When you’ve finished the mission, you’ll get the mission badge for your profile and portfolio. Consider becoming a Unity Certified User: Programmer Already know this material? You can "test out" of this mission by completing the mission assessments. Scroll down and select Skip to mission checkpoint.

This first mission in the Junior Programmer pathway will provide you with the core foundation needed to create a wide range of digital experiences in Unity. You’ll learn about fundamental programming concepts such as variables, functions and basic logic through two practical projects. You’ll also modify a script to customize a simple Unity experience: the beginning of your personal portfolio. Key details This mission will take you approximately 14 hours to complete. Take it at your own pace — you’ll receive XP each step of the way. Connect with the Unity community as you learn and check the Live calendar for follow-along practical sessions with Unity established creators. When you’ve finished the mission, you’ll get the mission badge for your profile and portfolio. Already know this material? You can "test out" of this mission by completing the mission assessments. Scroll down and select Skip to mission checkpoint.

In this Junior Programmer 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. Key details You’re now over halfway through the Junior Programmer learning pathway! This mission will take you approximately 5 hours to complete. Take it at your own pace — you’ll receive XP each step of the way. Remember, you’re not alone: connect with the Unity community throughout the mission and check the Learn Live calendar for follow-along practical sessions with Unity established creators. When you’ve finished the mission, you’ll get the mission badge for your profile and portfolio. Already know this material? You can "test out" of this mission by completing the mission assessments. Scroll down and select Skip to mission checkpoint.

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! Key details This is the final mission in your current pathway! This mission will take you approximately 5 hours to complete. Take it at your own pace — you’ll receive XP each step of the way. Remember, you’re not alone: connect with the Unity community throughout the mission and check the Learn Live calendar for follow-along practical sessions with Unity established creators. When you’ve finished the mission, you’ll get the mission badge for your profile and portfolio. Already know this material? You can "test out" of this mission by completing the mission assessments. Scroll down and select Skip to mission checkpoint.

In this project, you will learn about the Command Pattern. You will then go onto setup your own implementation of the command pattern by programming an Undo function. This tutorial is part of the Unity Junior Programmer pathway.

It’s time to take your programming skills and apply them to create custom VR interactions. In this first tutorial of the mission, you will learn what to expect from this mission, including an overview of the three distinct projects you’ll be working on.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Profiler to analyze a scene and identify where optimization bottlenecks are occurring. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to: Deduce the script method that uses the most CPU time (vs. a script method that does not) by using the CPU profiler in the Profiler window Differentiate a loop that efficiently goes through a collection once in an Update() call from many loops that go through the same collection in an Update() call Recognize possible issues that might cause performance problems (e.g., too many RigidBody components, too many Colliders, too many shadows, etc.), given a scenario Investigate performance issues caused by poly count, texture sizes, or too many objects on the screen by using Unity's Stats window Identify unnecessary nested if statements Review guidance on: Evidencing your progress Updating your portfolio and resume Preparing for interviews

In this lesson, you will be provided with potential next steps, now that you have completed this course. Whether you are more interested in art or programming, there is so much more you can learn in order to take your skills to the next level and create even more custom, unique VR experiences. If you have completed either the Unity Certified User: Programmer exam or the Unity Certified User: Artist exam, you are also eligible to take the Unity Certified User: VR Developer exam. This lesson is part of the Create with VR course.

Create with Code is one of our largest and longest running live series and we are so happy to finally bring you “Create with Code 2”. This 4 week learning series will guide you on the second half of the Jr. Programmer pathway setting you up to take certification exams and build your portfolio for the job market. Join us Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from November 15 until December 10, 2021 and take your Unity Programming skills to the next level. Register now. 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! Key details This is the final mission in your current pathway! This mission will take you approximately 5 hours to complete. Take it at your own pace — you’ll receive XP each step of the way. Remember, you’re not alone: connect with the Unity community throughout the mission and check the Learn Live calendar for follow-along practical sessions with Unity established creators. When you’ve finished the mission, you’ll get the mission badge for your profile and portfolio.