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Harrison Ferrone
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Harrison Ferrone

Harrison Ferrone is an instructional content creator for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight, tech editor for the Ray Wenderlich website, and used to write technical documentation on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College, Chicago. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back.
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Moving enemy agents

Our patrol locations are set and the Enemy Prefab has a NavMeshAgent component, but now we need to figure out how to reference those locations and get the enemy moving on its own. To do that, we’ll first need to talk about an important concept in the world of software development: procedural programming.

Procedural programming

Even though it’s in the name, the idea behind procedural programming can be elusive until you get your head around it; once you do, you’ll never see a code challenge the same way.

Any task that executes the same logic on one or more sequential objects is the perfect candidate for procedural programming. You already did a little procedural programming when you debugged arrays, lists, and dictionaries with for and foreach loops. Each time those looping statements were executed, you performed the same call to Debug.Log(), iterating over each item sequentially. The idea now is to use that skill to get a more useful...

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Harrison Ferrone

Harrison Ferrone is an instructional content creator for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight, tech editor for the Ray Wenderlich website, and used to write technical documentation on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College, Chicago. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back.
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