error CS1002 ; expected

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public float speed;
8.    
9.     // Start is called before the first frame update
10.     void Start()
11.  
12.  
13.     // Update is called once per frame
14.     void Update()
15.  
16.  
17.     void FixedUpdate()
18.     {
19.         float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
20.         float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
21.        
22.         Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal,0.0f,moveVertical);
23.        
24.         GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(movement*speed*Time.deltaTime);
25.     }
26. }
27.  

Help!
Total Newbie here
Newbie to the programming too.

 

Well, you've done well in posting your code with the proper code tags. A lot of newbies fail at that. So you're already ahead of the game there.

Next thing to remember: when posting an error message, copy & paste the entire error message, including the file name and line number. In fact that's kind of the key part in most cases; it will usually tell you right where the problem is.

In this case, the problem is the Update method on line 14, which you have started but not finished. Every method needs (1) a return type, or void; (2) a name, which is Update in this case; (3) a parameter list in parentheses, or empty parentheses if no parameters are needed; (4) curly braces which surround the code of the method.

Your Update method has 1, 2, and 3, but is missing 4. So, either add some empty curly braces after Update(), or just delete lines 13-14 entirely if you don't need an Update method.

 

And the Start() method on line 10. It either needs to be fully defined (return type, method name, parentheses after the method name, and curly braces after the parentheses are all required for the method definition) or it needs to be fully removed from the script. Below are examples of what it can look like defined but without any code in it.

Code (csharp):

1. void Start() {}

Code (csharp):

1. void Start() {
2. }

Code (csharp):

1. void Start()
2. {}

 

Thanks to both of your reply. It worked and motivated me to keep going. Thank you so much. As I don't know anything about coding or programming I want to ask for sources to learn basics for it. Like the 4 rules, both of you have pointed out, I didn't know anything about that. So thanks again. xD

 

I haven't tried these, but https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/intro-to-csharp/ looks pretty good.

 

I'm going to have to agree with this because this is exactly how I learned C#. Back then the tutorials were a little rougher but they covered everything I needed at the time. Code written following these tutorials can be run online at the following URL.

https://try.dot.net/

 

thank you again.

 

thanks again.