Why you should NOT make everything PUBLIC!

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In my 4 years of code learning, the public variables become 20% more private each year. I am still lazy about making all private even in cases that I know it should be. But I will get there. Thank you so much for the great videos.

I did wonder about this when I started learning coding, never knew why until now. Thank you for the knowledge.

The best example I've come across as to why you should make fields private and use functions to access them is to think of it like a device such as a TV remote. Do you need to know how a remote works in order to use it? Nope. As long as you have the buttons needed to perform its function, that's all that matters. In fact, if late at night a bunch of garden gnomes sneak into your house, and completely change the inner-workings of the remote and then leave - if the next time you use it and it still functions the same, you won't notice the difference. In a similar manner, the public entities of a class are those "buttons", and other classes should use those without having to "know" how they are defined as long as the expected result is achieved. You should make it in a way such that you can change the way your class works without affecting code in other classes.

Hey Monkey, this video should naturally continue with using a property for public reading but private writing and also you should check out the benefits of using scriptable objects as variables because it avoids dependencies and unnecessary errors. I admire what you do for the community! Cheers!

I just started learning C# for Unity specifically (about a week or so in). The series I've been watching has been great so far but I questioned this the second it was introduced. I absolutely asked myself, "Why would you make anything private ever?" Glad I got my answer, how serendipitous.

This HAS TO become a series of clean code principles!

Amazing video! It'd be really cool if you turned this into a series about good coding principles for Unity :)

Got the megapack, very glad I could find a way to support your channel. You make much better tutorials than anyone else I've seen, and I direct aspiring Unity developers to you whenever I can. A big thanks for all the informative videos you've made, I will always be a silent supporter of your channel.

That light mode IDE offends me

I dont use unity but to just keep learning about everything makes me happy. I would love to see you make more videos about clean code. Very interesting and helpful

Man you are speaking wisdoms in every video you make. Also when you said that the only limitation is the developer experience not Unity, that powerful words convinced me not to distract myself switching between Platforms. Thank you man🌹

There is 2 things that I do to make a cleaner code : as you said in the video, I avoid as much as possible the public field, and when I make a public variable or a public function, I also add a comment to clarify the other classes/objects that use this variable/function.

Code Monkey, thank you for keeping and not removing subtitles that are automatically generated by YouTube (even if the speech does not always match what is written in the subtitles). This allows me to translate them into my language (russian) and watch your videos.😜

What I also like about SerielizedField is that you can put further atributes to it, like Range() or Min(). That way you can clamp the value you can give in the editor.

Amazing video and very important idea I wish we could see a series from this kind of videos

Thanks, as a self taught coder many of this basic concept of OOP alludes me (and i just follow them blindly because of "good practice"), and yes, you're the first one that explains the concept clearly

Pls more Clean Code practices! I love knowing this things

Honestly I've struggled so much on this topic. Thank you for the guidance.

Thank you soo much, I just finished converting all my scripts to Private and Serialized Fields. Feels good having clean code :)