Coding with Minecraft

In this book Al introduces us to Computercraft a mod for Minecraft to program a lot of in-game features. It makes me remember of LOGO in which we used to commanded a turtle to move.I never had an idea that we can program in Minecraft and that too turtles lmao.

There are a lot of reviews that say that the instructions are outdated. In the first chapter the author acknowledges that this will most likely be the case. He provides, right there in black and white on page 3, a URL to the book's web page where I found links to updated instructions for recent versions of Minecraft and Forge. I feel the instructions are safe enough to set it up on vanilla Windows 10; I didn't have to set up a VirtualBox sandbox for my son. I was very relieved that we didn't have to install Curseforge and thus Overwolf, which seems very sketchy -- it is intrusive to the system, exists mostly as an ad platform, and will only install if I run it as administrator!

This is a cool book, but you need the computer version of Minecraft! My kids play on the iPad and I got it for them not knowing. We are holding onto it for when we get the computer version.

I got this for my 8 year old daughter and while we have only just begun working through it, the book is simple to understand and is a great way to begin learning to code.

This was recommended by my son's Minecraft weekend camp instructor - and he's been learning a lot from the book.