[course idea - suggestions] strengthen your programming skill with unity

Hi everybody. We are working on a series of lessons about game programming with the intention of helping students better understand some critical aspects of game developing by providing pratical examples of a game problem with unity. The idea is born with the intention of doing a "game as a lab" course, where the students can learn modern aspect of programming and technology by developing a videogame.

For now we have decided on some arguments like:

• artificial intelligence: how to build autonomous entities that behave in a non-deterministic way
• networks: commons problems in working over a network with active entities
• project architecture: what are the common game programming patterns and how to express the project architecture.

We think it would be very interesting to teach, or give the idea about how Unity handles the execution of the game, by looking at his architecture and see how some commons problems about dealing with active objects are resolved. Is out there an article or documentation that can illustrate in general unity environment architecture and execution environment?

Every other suggestion about the course is well accepted.

 

Will this course be suitable for beginners ? Is it just programming or will there be things such as modeling, animation etc. If this course is aimed at beginners then when talking i would recommend using less technical terms especially when focusing on programming, although it is good to learn these terms try and use real life examples to explain what they do

 

I don't think this course will be suitable for absolute beginners, we are planning to make it for students that are currently taking a master degree in computer science and engineering. We would like to find all the connection with courses that they already took, so that they will learning the technology starting from their common knowledge. It will focus on programming mostly.
I think that making real life examples is a good thing to make some things clear, thanks for your suggestion