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Discussion in 'Community Learning & Teaching' started by booth, Oct 18, 2010.

  1. booth

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    Are there any suggestion on a good book for learning C# (sharp) with Unity?

    Thank you for any assistance!
     
  2. Ignacio

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  3. Ostagar

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    I like O'Reilley's "Learning C#" (more language-oriented) by Jesse Liberty, but "Head First C#" (more game-oriented examples) also is tempting. Neither book teaches you about Unity, but with C# squared away you'll be able to do more with Unity in less time and the work will be much easier.

    The Unity API docs are great and there's a wealth of Unity tutorials out there to choose from.
     
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  4. Dreamora

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    I'm a fan of the head first books, as their stuff hooks much better in head than the dry scientific stuff and they are a great way to learn the core and base of a new topic. They aren't suitable as reference books etc but such a book would be totally unfriendly to someone new to the topic :)

    also in case of unity where you don't want to learn indepth about the frameworks or even worse Forms, its an even better better book :)
     
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  5. Ignacio

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    Excellent, I did not know about the Head First C# book.
    :)
     
  6. ProjectOne

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  7. booth

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    thanks.. the head first one looks good.

    I have experience with Python and a fair amount in Processing. My quick assumption is that C# is pretty necessary for Unity. The desire is to integrate Unity into university curriculum for artists, so making C# as accessible as possible will be the goal.
     
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  9. devilkingx

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    homeandlearn.co.uk

    it teaches like 12 different languages

    1 of them is C#

    it also teaches VB.net

    java

    javascript

    and some other crap

    all it needs is C++ and Python to be perfect
     
  10. Ostagar

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    While I strongly prefer C# for working with Unity, I wanted to clarify that necessary somewhat overstates the case, as it's also possible to use UnityScript and Boo for scripting.
     
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  12. Delfo

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    I would recommend Rob Miles' book, CSharp Yellow Book 2010. It can be freely downloaded.

    It's not a gaming oriented book, but it gives a very good basic knowlodge of c#....and it's free :)

    You can download it from Rob Miles website: http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/

    Delfo
     
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  16. zilants

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    I just ordered The C# Player's Guide from amazon

    i'll tell you if its any good when they ship it

    i got the headfirst c# but like it didnt interest me the new book version does alot of S*** with windows 8 and im like ehh