{"id":62,"date":"2017-03-02T07:25:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=62"},"modified":"2017-03-02T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:25:48","slug":"learning-unity-starting-an-online-course-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/portfolio\/learning-unity-starting-an-online-course-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Unity: starting an online course pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com\/t51.2885-15\/e35\/16230863_1844244795830152_6151938316716474368_n.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting #Unity #classes today. Does this make me the #tech #elite I&#8217;ve been reading so much about? ???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My partner and I recently bought an online course called <em>Learn to Code by Making Games &#8211; The Complete Unity Developer<\/em>. So far it has started very slow,\u00a0but by the end of the lesson plan, we will have completed several games (such as a text adventure, a bowling simulator, a zombie runner, a first person shooter, etc.)\u00a0and hopefully covered all of the ins and outs and methods of game creation that Unity offers.<\/p>\n<p>The first set of lessons taught us to make an in-console number game using C#, which doesn&#8217;t sound like much (and it isn&#8217;t, really), but it sparked a quirky side-effect realization within my brain. I&#8217;ve tried, on several occasions, to try to use on-line classes to learn to code. I even finished\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codecademy.com\/learn\/python\">Code Academy python <\/a>course, but never quite <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"64\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/portfolio\/learning-unity-starting-an-online-course-pt-1\/coding-clip-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coding-clip-1.jpg?fit=597%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"597,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"coding clip 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coding-clip-1.jpg?fit=597%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coding-clip-1.jpg?resize=300%2C131&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coding-clip-1.jpg?resize=300%2C131&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/coding-clip-1.jpg?w=597&amp;ssl=1 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>managed to make the leap from learning the bits and pieces to being able to apply them. Until now! It turns out that even though Unity uses a different language, the C# lessons accessed the python knowledge stored within my brain that I\u00a0never\u00a0figured out how to apply. So the first game, though it was very simple, still felt like a breakthrough. I have actually, it turns out, <em>at least a little bit<\/em>, managed to learn to code, even as I was sure I hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner and I recently bought an online course called Learn to Code by Making Games &#8211; The Complete Unity&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/portfolio\/learning-unity-starting-an-online-course-pt-1\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning Unity: starting an online course pt. 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[6,4,5,7],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[9,10,11,8],"class_list":["post-62","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jetpack-portfolio-type-coding","jetpack-portfolio-type-development","jetpack-portfolio-type-game-dev","jetpack-portfolio-type-unity","jetpack-portfolio-tag-coding","jetpack-portfolio-tag-development","jetpack-portfolio-tag-game-dev","jetpack-portfolio-tag-unity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/pieceofcake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}