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Unity Certified Programmer Exam Courseware (Video Training)

By Unity Technologies
Published May 6, 2019 by Addison-Wesley Professional.

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Copyright 2019
Edition: 1st

Online Video
ISBN-10: 0-13-589872-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-589872-7

Duration: 8+ hours of video instruction

Overview

This course will help you prepare for the Unity Certified Programmer exam, the professional certification for entry to mid-level Unity programmers. Unity is used to create real-time 3D applications for many industries, including video games, automotive, architecture, film, training, and more. In this course, you will be challenged to solve realistic Unity programming problems that are aligned to topics covered on the exam. Throughout the course, you will build the foundation for a 2D action video game: AsteraX. In doing so, you will practice many of the skills covered in the exam, including evaluating scripting needs from a project requirements document, implementing the three "C's" of an interactive applications (Character, Controls, Camera), providing user feedback through basic UI elements, and applying professional programming practices like developer testing.

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Over 8 hours of video instruction. This series of courses covers six topic areas distributed over four courses. These topics include programming core interactions, working in the art pipeline, developing application systems, programming for scene and environment design, optimizing for performance and platforms, and working in professional software development teams. The format of these courses are project and activity based and participants will need to feel comfortable individually programming in Unity. Participants will be challenged to build two complete Unity projects, implementing core interactivity, supporting systems, and platform optimizations.

About the Instructor

Unity Technologies is the creator of the worlds most widely used real-time 3D (RT3D) development platform, giving developers around the world the tools to create rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. Our 1000 person engineering team keeps Unity at the bleeding-edge of technology by working alongside partners such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Oculus to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Experiences made with Unity reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide, and were installed 24 billion times in the last 12 months. Unity is powering RT3D in architecture, automotive, construction, engineering, film, games, and more.

By successfully completing the projects in all four courses, participants will have had extensive, guided practice in the programming skills needed to pass the Unity Certified Programmer exam.

Skill Level

Intermediate

What You Will Learn

-Asset creation and management

-Working in the art pipeline

-Developing application systems

-Programming for scene and environment design

-Optimizing for performance and platforms

-Working in professional software development teams

Who Should Take This Course

Primary: This series of courses is for Unity programmers with 1-2 years of experience who are ready to bring their existing skills up to a professional standard.

Course Requirements

Prerequisites:

Ï 1-2 years of programming interactive experiences with Unity; Proficient in C#

Table of Contents

Course 1: Core Interaction Programming

Introduction to Course 1
Challenge 1: Scripting Needs
Solution 1: Scripting Needs
Version Control with Collaborate
Challenge 2: Player movement and firing
Solution 2A: PlayerShip
Solution 2B: Turret Movement and Firing Bullets
Solution 2C: Screen Wrap
C# Best Practices for Collaboration: Best Practices for Working with others
Challenge 3: Spawning and Destroying Asteroids
Solution 3A: Spawning Asteroids
Solution 3B: Collisions and Bullets
Solution 3C: Bonus: Fixing OffscreenWrapper
Developer Testing and Debugging in Unity
Challenge 4: Points Jumps and UI
Solution 4A: Playership and Jumps
Solution 4B: Points and UI
Course 1 Summary

Course 2: Application Systems Programming

Introduction to Course 2
Challenge 1: Particles and Explosions
Solution 1A: Particles and Explosions
Solution 1B: Particles and Explosions: Bonus
Challenge 2: Multiple Levels and Pause
Solution 2A: Pause
Solution 2B: Multiple Levels
Solution 2C: Bonus Challenge: Animated LevelAdvancePanel
Challenge 3: Achievements
Solution 3: Achievements
Challenge 4: Saving Game Information Locally
Solution 4
Analytics and Remote Settings Setup
Challenge 5: Player Ship Customization and UI
Solution 5A: Player Ship Customization and UI-UI Implementation
Solution 5B: Player Ship Customization and UI-UI Implementation
Challenge 6: Unity Analytics and Remotesettings
Solution 6: Unity Analytics and Remotesettings
Debugging and Profiling
Challenge 7: Mobile Edition
Solution 7: Mobile Edition
Course 2 Summary

Course 3: 3D Interactions and Navigation

Challenge 1: Enemy Navigation
Solution 1A: Enemy Navigation
Solution 1B: Enemy Navigation (Bonus)
Challenge 2: Character Animation
Solution 2A: Character Animation
Solution 2B: Character Animation (Bonus)
Challenge 3: Camera Control
Solution 3 and Bonus: Camera Control
Challenge 4: Environmental Interactions
Solution 4A: Environmental Interactions (Desk)
Solution 4B: Environmental Interactions (Light Cones and Security Camera Timeline Playable)
Challenge 5: Minimap
Solution 5: Minimap
Course 3 Summary

Course 4: 3D Art and Audio Pipeline

Challenge 1: Matching Concept art
Solution 1A: Camera Control
Solution 2A: Concept Art: Post-Processing and Toon Lighting
Challenge 2: Red Alert
Solution 2: Red Alert
Challenge 3: Audio
Solution 3: Audio
Challenge 4: Multiple Levels
Solution 4: Multiple Levels
The Unity Frame Debugger
Networking and Multiplayer
VR Best Practices
AR Best Practices
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Table of Contents

Course 1: Core Interaction Programming

Introduction to Course 1
Challenge 1: Scripting Needs
Solution 1: Scripting Needs
Version Control with Collaborate
Challenge 2: Player movement and firing
Solution 2A: PlayerShip
Solution 2B: Turret Movement and Firing Bullets
Solution 2C: Screen Wrap
C# Best Practices for Collaboration: Best Practices for Working with others
Challenge 3: Spawning and Destroying Asteroids
Solution 3A: Spawning Asteroids
Solution 3B: Collisions and Bullets
Solution 3C: Bonus: Fixing OffscreenWrapper
Developer Testing and Debugging in Unity
Challenge 4: Points Jumps and UI
Solution 4A: Playership and Jumps
Solution 4B: Points and UI
Course 1 Summary

Course 2: Application Systems Programming

Introduction to Course 2
Challenge 1: Particles and Explosions
Solution 1A: Particles and Explosions
Solution 1B: Particles and Explosions: Bonus
Challenge 2: Multiple Levels and Pause
Solution 2A: Pause
Solution 2B: Multiple Levels
Solution 2C: Bonus Challenge: Animated LevelAdvancePanel
Challenge 3: Achievements
Solution 3: Achievements
Challenge 4: Saving Game Information Locally
Solution 4
Analytics and Remote Settings Setup
Challenge 5: Player Ship Customization and UI
Solution 5A: Player Ship Customization and UI-UI Implementation
Solution 5B: Player Ship Customization and UI-UI Implementation
Challenge 6: Unity Analytics and Remotesettings
Solution 6: Unity Analytics and Remotesettings
Debugging and Profiling
Challenge 7: Mobile Edition
Solution 7: Mobile Edition
Course 2 Summary

Course 3: 3D Interactions and Navigation

Challenge 1: Enemy Navigation
Solution 1A: Enemy Navigation
Solution 1B: Enemy Navigation (Bonus)
Challenge 2: Character Animation
Solution 2A: Character Animation
Solution 2B: Character Animation (Bonus)
Challenge 3: Camera Control
Solution 3 and Bonus: Camera Control
Challenge 4: Environmental Interactions
Solution 4A: Environmental Interactions (Desk)
Solution 4B: Environmental Interactions (Light Cones and Security Camera Timeline Playable)
Challenge 5: Minimap
Solution 5: Minimap
Course 3 Summary

Course 4: 3D Art and Audio Pipeline

Challenge 1: Matching Concept art
Solution 1A: Camera Control
Solution 2A: Concept Art: Post-Processing and Toon Lighting
Challenge 2: Red Alert
Solution 2: Red Alert
Challenge 3: Audio
Solution 3: Audio
Challenge 4: Multiple Levels
Solution 4: Multiple Levels
The Unity Frame Debugger
Networking and Multiplayer
VR Best Practices
AR Best Practices
Summary

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