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🧠 💻 The Programmer’s Brain: 3 types of confusion when you’re learning a new tech

The book is here It is highly recommended. If you have a background in neuroscience, you will enjoy it a lot! The programmer’s brain 🧠  When learning learn to recognize your confusion. Knowing what type of confusion you are facing can help you. There are 3 types of confusion: 1. Lack of knowledge Complete lack of knowledge in a specific domain so lacking domain specific

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Unity Editor Basics #9: Tool bar: Hand tool ✋

✋ The hand tool allows you to pan/move around the scene with the mouse without moving or shifting any game object ✋The keyboard shortcut is: Q ✋ This is different from the fly through mode which will basically allow you to move very fast in the scene ✋To enter fly through mode press on the right mouse button and then use the WASD keys to

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Unity Editor Basics #8: Menu bar: Help🟢

🟢The menu bar is right below the title bar 🟢Has all these menu options: File, Edit, Assets, GameObject, Component, Window and Help 🟢From the Help drop-down menu you can pull up the Unity User Manual or the Unity Scripting Reference 🟢There are other help options to check out the official Unity forum, Unity answers to get a specific question answered or look up older question-answers

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Unity Editor Basics #2: Menu bar: File 📁

📁The bar is right below the title bar 📁Has all these menu options: File, Edit, Assets, GameObject, Component, Window and Help 📁The File option is concerned with f options like opening an existing scene, or creating a new scene 📁You can also save your project with the Save and Save as options 📁 Or create a new project from the File menu or open an

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Unity Editor Basics #1: Title bar 📜

📜Title bar is right at the top and displays info about the application and your project 📜Logo (Unity) → Click → Context menu (which allows you to restore, minimize, maximize etc). You can do the same with the buttons on the far right 📜Your project name 📜The name of the scene which is currently open (game level, film scene, splash scene, welcome scene etc) 📜Build

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Introduction to C# in Unity #11: 🥑 If conditional statement

🥑We use conditional statements all the time in real life. For example, suppose you go to your favorite restaurant and you ask for what you always eat there – Fish & Chips. The server lets you know that you can’t order that since they’ve run out of Fish and to please choose something else. So you order your second best choice – Pizza. 🥑Another example:

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