Chapter 23
Collections in C#
C# collections enable you to act on several similar things as a group. For example, you could store all of the enemy GameObjects in a List and loop over that List each frame to update all of their positions and states.
This chapter covers three important types of these collections in detail: Lists, arrays, and Dictionaries. By the end of this chapter, you will understand how these collection types work and which to use in various situations.
C# Collections
A collection is a group of objects that are referenced by a single variable. In regular life, collections would be things like a group of people, a pride of lions, a parliament of rooks, or a murder of crows. Just like these animal grouping terms, the collections ...
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