Error CS0116: A namespace cannot directly contain members such as fields or methods

Unity Engine
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Hi! I am a beginner in Unity and I got this notification. I am doing the RollABall tutorial. Could someone put their PlayerController.cs script and tell me what I did wrong? I’m using NotePad ++ btw. ( I’m also getting a hang of these code tags, so if I do it wrong I am so sorry.)

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {


      public float speed;
      public Text countText;
      public GameObject winTextObject;
   
      private float movementX;
      private float movementY;
   
      private Rigidbody rb;
      private int count;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
       
        count =0;
       
        SetCountText();
       
        winText.text="You Win!";
        winTextObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
       
       
       
    Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (movementX, 0.0f, movementY);
      
       rb.AddForce(movement * speed );
    }
   
    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        {
            if(other.gameObject.CompareTag("PickUp"))
           
            other.gameObject.SetActive(false);
           
            count = count + 1;
           
            SetCountText();
           
            }
        }
        void OnMove(InputValue movementValue)
        {

        Vector2 v = value.Get<Vector2>();
       
        movementX = v.x;
        movementY = v.y;
        }
    }

        void SetCountText()
        {                                                                       
            countText.text = "Count: " + count.ToString();
            if(count >=12);
            {
                winText.text = "You Win!";
                winTextObject.SetActive(true);
            }
        }

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And also, I have been looking at other threads and forums and couldn’t find what I was looking for

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Don’t do that. Save doing that for when you know the language cold. Install Visual Studio. It really adds a lot of value.

You have actual lines of code that are out of order above, such as 46 and 47.

Again, when typing other people’s code in, you cannot even mess up one character.

Go install Visual Studio.

This may help you with intellisense and possibly other Visual Studio integration problems:

Sometimes the fix is as simple as doing Assets → Open C# Project from Unity. Other times it requires more.

https://discussions.unity.com/t/778503

Also, try update the VSCode package inside of Unity: Window → Package Manager → Search for Visual Studio Code Editor → Press the Update button

Also, this: https://discussions.unity.com/t/805330/7

Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:

How to do tutorials properly:

Tutorials are a GREAT idea. Tutorials should be used this way:

Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly. Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right.

Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes. BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE.

If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix it. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix the error. The error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.

Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.

Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.

Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.

Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!

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