Learn to Program by Making Games in Unity

well explained

Short Version: Course was good for a newbie but with no support from the instructor plus using an old version of Unity there are much better options out there. Long Version: I was looking for a Unity course for over the summer that was 1. Geared to absolute beginners in coding and Unity 2. Was good for a shorter completion time (summer break) and 3. You still would have a decent completed game to play when done. This course seemed to be a perfect match and I did enjoy it and finished the Pong game. I did download the older version of Unity the instructor was using in the course in case of any differences (and after using the current version of Unity with a different course I see there are coding differences) The instructor did a good job of explaining what the code was doing and why we were using it. Later on the coding explanations did start to get a bit brief and at times I did feel that I was just typing the code and not really understanding why. But the biggest issue came up in the second game Bricks. I was almost finished with it when the code wasn’t doing what it was suppose to. I checked the code, it was correct. I added debug.log statements to it so that I could verify in the Console Window that the code was executing as expected and it was it just wasn’t activating the function in the game it was suppose to. So I posted in the Q&A section for the course. That’s when I saw all the unanswered questions, some dating back over a year ago. Many of the questions that had a reply where the original poster posting the solution he found on his own later, or another user providing help. After more than a month my question never received an answer. In the meantime I was trying to Google for a solution and searching Unity’s documents which brought up the other issue all possible solutions or examples of code I found were for the current version of Unity. I could not get them to work in the old version I was using and could not find help for the old version. Every so often I would give it another go. 4 months later I figured out a work around instead of using the instructors code and have now finished the Brick game but am going no further in this course. During that time I started another Unity gaming and code course which has very responsive support from the instructors, great explanations so I’m learning the coding, and am much happier with.

Very well explained course, had a blast following it. Good job!

Really enjoyed this course. Learning by doing really is the best method. I will most likely purchase another one of James’ courses.