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I have to say, after reading your review, and some of the others on the US Amazon site, I am wondering out loud if I got a totally different copy from the rest of you. Because I had a very, very different experience with the book.
from my side, as I’m almost a complete beginner, just have very minimal c# exposure and a little unity knowledge
I was kind of looking through a kids eyes where everything is new.
I didn’t have any knowledge on the topics covered until going through them apart from what I’ve done within the learn site here. So from my perspective it was all shiny new and a good boost to get a foundation understanding of stuff I can take into my further projects to build upon.
Tech books are always received differently based on the perception and expectations of the reader. It sounds like this is a fine Intermediate level book all of the beginning programmers can use to take their skills and thinking to the next level. Someone with a decade or more experience will have waaaay more experience to draw from and their expectations will be very different from someone just learning programming.
In your book review you said, “There are areas of the book that are either wrong or totally confusing. Several code samples specify a RidgedBody2D object - if you are even a beginner Unity user you know there is no such thing.”
The spelling is incorrect in the book. It appears exactly the way I spell it in the sentence above, which is wrong. It is Rigidbody2D, not Ridgedbody2D.
It will be better when the 2nd edition is printed with some of the errors fixed. There are a few pretty obvious ones.
It assumes you’re better than a beginner C# programmer, though, which is something that as a developer with experience is extremely refreshing to find. We need more books that teach Unity without teaching fundamentals of programming. There’s enough of those.
I agree with Teknophyl, it makes the reader solve issues themselves or use the Errata quite frequently. More books of this style aiming at the more Intermediate/Advanced users would be great, an abundance of Introductory books does nothing to push the envelope.
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Thanks for all the kind reviews.
In regards to teknophyl’s comments, there were some issues introduced in the initial publication of the book, needless to say I was suitably annoyed. However I’ve worked with the publisher and corrected all the issues that were introduced to the title since it left my hands.
The updated version has been live for a few weeks now and good to go.
Simon, at the end of the day, its good to to have writers take pride in their work like yourself, and when readers give feedback its taken on board and gratefully received.
bound to be some teething problems with a first release, but you have taken all comments on board to bolster content and explanations. giving every buyer an updated digital copy is brill and more than expected.