DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START

Hello everyone,

Well I am having a certain amount of difficulty now days. As to tell, I am from art background and have no programming knowledge and experience. My question is where should I start from. How do I know what to use where to get a certain type of output by programming. I have looked at the official unity programming tutorials, but I think they are not for the NOOBS in programming. Please help me as I am having a huge roadblock in front of me.

Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.

 

I can understand how the Unity scripting tutorials aren't exactly geared towards learning basic programming. I'd recommend using Visual Studio 2013 Community and starting off with some C# console application projects. There are plenty of C# programming tutorials online, even on Youtube, and finding different sources for the same material will help solidify your understanding of concepts from different perspectives.

 

Have you looked at Playmaker? It's a visual scripting add on from the asset store that may help you as it removes a lot of the coding. You still need to understand consepts & the order to do things but I know artists that use it to make games for game jams & quick prototyping before they work with programmers.

 

If you truly know nothing at all about programming, I generally recommend https://www.codecademy.com/ to start with. Mind you, I don't recommend staying there that long, because the lessons there aren't specific to Unity, but that's a great place to spend a weekend learning the basics of programming.