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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Pickups Spawn Pickups Randomly

Diego Roda
Diego Roda
340 Points

Why you declare variables at the beginning of the class and some other times within its loops or after other code lines?

I don't know if you mention it later on during the course, but the first occurrence came up during this lesson I think. Also, probably this is a OOP language-related concept, and not necessarily part of this course, but it'd be great to know the reason now that I'm learning it here.

1 Answer

Rick Hoekman
Rick Hoekman
9,494 Points

You will learn that with C# basics.. Some variables have to be in the body / block (within the {} ) to be available .. They call them Scopes. This is explained here: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/try-code-and-catch-exceptions