Is it really worth spending the $12 a month for the official learning material?

I'm brand new to game development and Unity (but not new to programming) and was looking through the learning documentation and notice that Unity has an official learning course for $12 a month.

How good is this regarding quality? Also, is it regularly updated when new features are added to Unity? I'm happy to spend the money to learn, but I want to make sure it is the best possible way to learn Unity before I put the cash up.

I'm keen on learning Unity because I have seen what it is capable of in other games and I think I'll be able to do what I want in it. Plus there is also the asset store which will help me greatly while I am learning.

 

My understanding is that the course is good but incomplete.

I'm not aware of whether the official course is kept updated but it would surprise me if it were. I'm not aware of any learning resource (book, course, tutorial, etc) that is kept updated at the same pace as the software platform it covers. It's nearly impossible to do that because of the pace with which technology evolves. At best you can only really expect yearly.

If you want paid courses I recommend checking out the ones by Ben Tristem at Udemy. It's a one-time purchase and they're almost always on sale for under $12.

https://www.udemy.com/user/bentristem/
https://www.udemy.com/unitycourse2/

That being said I wouldn't check out any paid learning resources until you have at least tried the free ones.

 

Thank you for the reply. I guess it won't hurt to go over the free material first and see what that is like. I also need to revise my C# knowledge first. I've just never done game programming before so I have to start right from the beginning and probably need simple things explained to me.

I'll look into those Udemy courses as well.