[Newbie] To no programmers Unity is ok to create app?

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Hi there, I am a new user of the unity world.

I have no programming experience, I know only a bit of ASP and HTML and theoric and generally concept of programming. I’d like create apps for iPhone because I have some good ideas. In the past I have used Clickteam tools to create creative and beautiful (for me) games. So I asked myself if Unity iPhone is good for me to create app with easy like Clickteam tools (Multimedia Fusion for example).I read that to have a really good games you must know C# or Javascript so here there are my little questions:

  1. I must learn C# or Javascript to create games?
  2. If learn C# or Javascript is it need, which are of them more effincient and useful to create, without problems, a game?
  3. Learn C# or Javascript is more easy that learn Objective-C?
  4. Buying Unity iPhone software and license I get a full manual?
  5. Last question: Can I create only games or application too? I’d like create, for example, interactive book…

Excuse me for my dumb questions and for my bad english, but if I must play up my energy in this way I want to be quite that I’m doing the right thing!

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You must learn C# or Javascript to write games in Unity. I have learnt Javascript over a few months so that I can use Unity. It does take some work, but it allows you to produce professional standard games with relative ease.

I chose Javascript as there are lots of tutorials available for it, particularly on Unity’s own website and on YouTube. I was able to get something simple working within a day using those resources.

Objective-C would not be much harder to learn as a language, but it would not allow you to use the fantastic tool that is Unity.

Unity is designed for games, but you can use it as you wish. But it probably would not be as easy to do something else.

Try the free version of Unity for a while to see if it suits you.

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Thanks for your reply.

Which aspect of javascript should I delve??

Javascript is orientend about web pages, so what I should study?

You can suggest any book for that?

Thanks

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It isn’t standard Javascript, so if you don’t know any (same position I was in), you are as well starting using the Unity version.

I started with the Unity basics here:

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/video/

Followed by the Will Goldstone videos (each lesson is in several parts):

Then followed the Tornado Twins videos on YouTube:

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Hey dream, you can start here. http://unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Head_First_into_Unity_with_JavaScript

It seems to me that you only have a bare-bones knowledge about programming in general. Just browse that wiki and its articles and you should be right on track.

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In addition to the ideas posted already, you can download the free version of Unity and start playing with the example projects.

Learn how the scripts work and how it’s all put together. Most of what you learn with Unity Desktop will transfer to iPhone development.

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Very very very thanks to all !!!

I believe that we’ll became really “digital” friends because from now to over I’ll need to hear of you about my learning way!