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Do the following before the first day of class

1. Join the Slack

• Use your @nyu.edu email address to sign up
• I will use this for class communications
• Download the desktop or mobile client

1. Download Unity

• You should be using version 2017.3
  • Make sure to install WebGL build support

1. Create a JetBrains student account

• Make sure to sign up using your @nyu.edu email

1. Download JetBrains Rider

• You should be using version 2017.3

1. Download SourceTree

• You will need to make an account
• Connect your GitHub account after you install the app
• Latest version is 2.7

1. Make a GitHub account

• Star this repository

1. Make an Itch.io account

RESOURCES

Quick Info

• Unity cheat sheet by Robert Yang and Ramsey Nasser
• Catlike Coding has many well written tutorials. The tutorials on rendering and hex grids are especially good.
• P4Merge - The (free) Perforce merge tool, P4Merge is hidden in the installer for the Perforce suite. It is the best standalone merge/diff tool available.

References

• Unity Documentation
• MSDN C# Reference
• The Nature of Code - Uses Processing and Java, but the code is simple enough to transcribe to C# easily. Chapter 1 - Vectors is a very good introduction to vectors and linear algebra in a programming context.
• Game Programming Patterns - Most of the content in this book is too specific and beyond the scope of this class, but I add it here if you're curious.
• WikiWikiWeb - The first and original Wiki, created by a bunch of nerds to talk about nerdy programming things
  • See: DesignPatternsBook

Community Answers

• Unity Answers
• Stack Overflow

Other Stuff

• Unity Icons with Version Numbers
• PrototypingKit
  • An old repo with some useful Unity scripts
  • Some scripts may be outdated or just bad -- your mileage may vary