What's the best way to learn Boo?

2    16 Aug 2015 13:03 by u/ImSureImPerfect

I'm starting to play around with Unity and I've noticed that - along with Javascript and C# - it supports programming in Boo. To my understanding, Boo is a Python derivative. Seeing as I'm more familiar with Python than Java/C#, I figured that it would be best to try using Boo for the time being. The problem is that Boo seems to be a pretty obscure language. I haven't been able to find too many good learning resources for it.

Does anyone know a good online tutorial for Boo? Does anyone have any experience with it? What should I expect? Would I be better off just learning some Javascript?

Thanks for any help.

2 comments

2 u/Sylos 16 Aug 2015 19:40

Honestly, I learned c# for Unity. I know, that doesn't help with you directly, but it's not hard to pick up c#. Boo is (as you said) an obscure language. I don't even know if Unity really cares about it(most of the unity tutorials I saw did /not/ use Boo).

Anyways, here's a link to the Bootorials website. I think it'll give a pretty decent grasp of the basics and a bit more stuff.

Bonus points: Here's a reason why you might use Boo in Unity It also lists a reason why not to use it, but let's not focus on that.

1 u/ImSureImPerfect [OP] 20 Aug 2015 03:56

Thanks!

I've decided to learn both Boo and Javascript. Knowing multiple languages never hurts and Java will be useful for unrelated projects in the future. I would have never find that Bootorials sight though, so I really owe you for that.