Best Way To Learn Unity 3D for experienced programmers?

I am extremely comfortable with imperative programming languages, such as PHP and I have been developing mobile applications on other platforms.

I was just wondering what is the best way to learn how to use Unity 3D.

The user interface of Unity seems very alien to me and complicated.

What's the quickest and best way to learn how to use it? I know what loops/if-statements/variables/booleans/strings etc are.

I've made about 10 games with Game *ake* **ud*o (*o*oGames) and published them on the iOS/Android stores, however, I am considering switching to Unity 3D soon as my main software as I can see that Unity 3D is much more powerful.

I still find Unity 3D extremely complicated. Any idea which tutorials or books I should take a look at if I already know how to program?

Also, what programming languages are allowed and is the most preferred/useful for the software?

Thanks!

 

You should take a look at the tutorials of unity:
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules

 

C# is basically the standard language, UnityScript (JavaScript) is also quite popular.
Looking into Object-Oriented Programming in general will definitely help, however I find the best way to learn is by doing, so pick a very small project, like Pong / Snake or something similar, and create that in Unity.

Once you get your head around GameObjects and Components, everything should come together.

 

Thank you, almost 7 years later, I improved and managed to get very comfortable with Unity. I did not even know OOP back then. I had the Dunning-Kruger effect back then too.

 

This... once you understand that everything in the scene is a GameObject with Components, and that Components can have Assets, Components and other GameObjects dragged into their public fields, you're in the fast lane to grasping it all.

This is also super-useful... some timing diagram help:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html