How come this Scripting Page isn't Easily found?

Unity Engine
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Hello Guys,

I recently started programming in C# and I was having a hard time with the current documentation in terms of reference and examples of codes one should use. And i was searching up for what is the meaning of Mathf.Abs, and the current documentation wasn’t as descriptive as the results i found on this page.

http://docs.unity3d.com/412/Documentation/ScriptReference/index.html

The way i found this page was via google, not the site. I tried finding this page through the site and didn’t find any link that helped me get there. I see the page is a bit outdated, but I like the way certain pieces of code are much more descriptive in this version of the documentation in comparison to the current one. I understand things a bit more and i just felt like there should be some sort of way new users like me can access this via the site.

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Mathf is part of the .NET Framework, so it’s C# and not really related to Unity, although it can be used in Unity c# scripts. Mathf.Abs returns the absolute value of a number. I agree some of the stuff on the site is hard to find, your best bet is to just search Google for quick reference, or search on that unity3d docs page

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I think i may just have to do that. Its kind of hard for me to get used to the whole getting help when it comes to coding, Im an artist so im very visual and try to figure things out on my own. But when it comes to programming i have to abandon that mind set since its not like art. Research needs to get done and questions need to be asked. Any Advice?

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Actually Mathf is part of Unity, not part of the .NET Framework. That page is the old manual; the new one is here:

And it should have mostly the same info, though make sure you try clicking the “C#/JS/Boo” buttons in the upper right to switch languages on some pages, because sometimes there are only examples for one language, or there might be examples for both but only one has comments. The “About scripting” section from that original page was also moved out of the Scripting API documentation and put into the regular manual here:

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Ah was thinking of this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a4ke8e73(v=vs.110).aspx

unity and their bad habit of duplicate names lol

Also, just wanted to warn the OP- careful what tutorials you read, as with a lot of game development tutorials, they become outdated or deprecated very fast - and often have more code errors than other code tutorials in my experience.