Unity Game Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition may be currently the best tutorial book written for absolute beginners to the Unity game engine who want to learn it from scratch and step by step.

This post covers two editions of the book Beginning C# Programming with Unity, MonoDevelop Edition and Visual Studio Edition. You can choose to read the corresponding edition according to the C# language developing tool (MonoDevelop or Visual Studio) you are using or familiar with. It is dedicated to beginners who have never programmed before and planned to use MonoDevelop or Visual Studio to start to learn the development of Unity scripts or standalone applications based on C# language from scratch.

Unity 5 from Zero to Proficiency is a series of Unity tutorial books specially written for absolute game developing beginners. This step-by-step and easy-to-understand, easy-to-follow series of handbooks for Unity 5 can take readers from game developing yearners who know nothing about Unity (even the game programming itself) to a professional game developer with good level of proficiency to Unity.

Unity (AKA: Unity3D/Unity2D, U3D for short) is currently the most popular multi-platform free game engine developed by Unity Technologies from Denmark (mainly written in C, C++ and C#, and first released in 2005). Users with C# and JavaScript programming experience can get started more quickly.

As an OS platform leading the mobile application trends, Android released NDK to support the mixed developments of Java & C programming languages. This made it possible to port thousands of PC games (mainly written in C) onto Android platform and make them look more attractive by using a simple ARM Compiler.