Data Structures For Game Devs: Arrays vs. Lists | Unity Tutorial (Part 1)

This video covers fundamentals on C# collections, Lists and Arrays. It's part of a guide/tutorial series on data structures for Unity game developers, with lots of examples and a focus on using them to make your dev life easier!

Part 1 (Arrays, Lists & Fundamentals): You're here!

These are my first tutorial-style videos on the channel, so let me know what you think!

Gameplay:
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Islanders
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Hollow Knight
- On Track (My own little game, there are devlog videos on the channel!)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 What This Guide Is & Is Not
0:43 Data Structures? Why?
1:37 C# Generics
2:36 Array
3:13 Array - Abstract Base Class
3:53 Array - Pros & Cons
5:00 List
5:11 List - Internals
5:45 List - Pros & Cons
6:08 List - Code & Examples
7:28 Upcoming Parts

[Pontypants]

Awesome series! :) Great for people like me who code as follows: ctrl+c, ctrl+v

[SomeKrnDude]

As somebody with very little coding experience, this guide made it really easy to digest the definitions and usages. Thank you so much!

[vergilrose]

3 Years late but this helped me alot, thank you, very easy to understand

[ari]

Very good video, the rookie programmer feels that he has learned very much, thank you for sharing and giving your time!

[tPlayerioT]

i like how you skipped the cientific part (0:50) to tell us in a better way with visuals, very nice video!

[bluecarrotrm]

This is an excellent video for beginners in data structures. Thank you very much for making it. A year is too late for praise but have a heap of it anyway.

[AndrewGiacomoPinnical]

gosh this is an amazing tutorial, thank you so much for making this!

[Karl_]

Wow, this is the best tutorial I have seen in this topic! Thank you so much!

[NamidaSai]

Great masterclass, you’ve got the perfect mix of edutainment going here. Good work!

[paypercutts]

Nice and helpful for my own endeavors. Thank you. Also, very smart creating content to educate, which brings lots of new traffic and also incorporate your own game in there too. Keen for more!

[bigofbig]

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[danielgalli]

exactly what i was looking for thanks!!

[Aye_Sid]

Thanks for the awesome series Anni. U got a subscriber. 😀👍🏻

[Skeffles]

Brilliantly explained! I rarely find myself using arrays these days

[happytofu]

Thank you! Very understandable and entertaining!

[lora]

I need to click on the button and create a public list that will be displayed in the inspector. Please help me!🙏🙏🙏

[zigglyDev]

Yo you are great teacher. But I'm little dumb for programming. Great video. 👍

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[TREXYT]

Hey Anni, nice video, thanks for sharing. I want to know how can i get the layer order value of the last element in a List ? Thanks 😊

[kayPlayz.]

i need help,
i have a situation that i am creating different lvls in same scene, that is i disable lvl 1 object from the hierarchy and enable in same position second lvl, and player after player collide with finish line it came back to starting position in lvl 2 .
but i cant disable and enable objects after collison except 2 lvls
and 3 lvl is not opening, i tired with loop and arrays but not working.