What I meant is: if you want to learn Object Oriented Programming JS is not a good choice. You need to consider if you need to/want to teach yourself OOP or not (ex. if you are thinking about a career as a developer, many employers will require OOP). So, take a second to think about it. If the answer is ‘yes’, learn C# if not, stick with JS.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/index.Writing_Scripts_in_Csharp.html

I mean, if C# is the better language, why is all the documentation in JS?

On the other hand there’s nothing to gain by limiting yourself to JS. It’s a lousy programming language and using it too often leads to bad coding habits :)

If you go through Will’s book, translating all the code from JS into C# is actually a very good exercise.

1. I can use it for web design outside of Unity
2. The Unity reference guides and wiki and the one book I found on Unity (Unity Game Development Essentials by Will Goldstone) all use JS.

As for C#, I was thinking that it would be more useful in general, rather than just for web-based stuff.

Thanks for the help…

As its title suggests it’s a book on Java programming, but the OOP concepts are the same everywhere. I guess today there are many other good books out there about object oriented programming, some for AS3 and some for c# but I can’t recommend any since I haven’t read them.

I’m not sure if somebody has mentioned this before. but if you’re looking for a C# editor, the Visual Studio C# Express Edition might work. and It’s free. I know there’re a couple of nice IDEs but I don’t remember the name of them.

Herberth

But don´t you think that unitys implementation of avascript is far more like Actionscript? You con almost copy whole code blocks from AS and get it to run.

Unity Javascript seems closer to AS in general. When you write a methode in js you can write:
public Stop(obj : System.Object, name : string ) : void

instead of c#
public void Stop(System.Object obj, string name)

Of course there are some nasty pitfalls here and there, for example in Arrays. A lot of Array Methods ar non present. Or do while(). There is only a while() as i remember.

I don´t know how that is handled i c#.

Furthermore, the underlying mono seems to be more powerful then unity javascript.
A small example is the varuable type uint. While working in unitron, uint is not colored, which made me think it doesn´t exist. In unitys dokumentation it is also not mentioned.
But it actually works. There seem to be a lot of these things but i have no idea where to look that up.

Thanks for the autocompletion tip!

I am getting to the point now where I also use the Unity3D IDE a bit less and actually apply game components via code which makes for very fast development in Unity3D for new projects and your components are very reusable.

Most flash programmers that haven’t been .net developers or c#/java/C/C++ type developers will be comfortable with the Javascript version that Unity3D includes and be almost as productive as hardcore programmers at least in game logic though. I absolutely love the mono .net framework, thank Miguel de Icaza when you can: http://tirania.org/blog/

There are lots of similarities but lots of extra niceities in C#. I was using .net (the framework isn’t nearly as nice as the language) and visual studio but I may look into Unity – it sounds really interesting.

Visual Studio is a really nice IDE if you can find a windows machine to run it on – the intellisense is better even than FDT is for as3. Some things that I liked from c# include: implicitly typed local vars and LINQ. As already mentioned, generics, method overloading and reflection are also really good…

However, now i’ll just learn it to learn another language, which is always great.

Excellent post

I accentually wonder if we will see Unity based websites (or rather promotional pages) anytime soon. Is unity even possible to use for this? Or it is just games?