“While <i>Coding with Minecraft</i> is an educational book, it is also a delightful read...a must for anyone who has any interest in Minecraft.”<br /><b>—Gaming INTEL<br /></b><br />"If you have children interested in coding who also love Minecraft, I believe this would be a great book to invest in."<br /><b>—The Old Schoolhouse<br /></b>

Using ComputerCraft, a free Minecraft mod, and the Lua programming language (used by professional game developers), you'll write programs to make your bots dig mines, chop wood, craft items, and build anything you can imagine. Sit back, relax, and make your turtle army do the work! The book provides the full code needed to write each program and walks you through it line by line, explaining how things work along the way. By book's end, you ll have a handle on computer science basics, a taste of how fun and powerful coding can be, and plenty of turtle robots at your command.
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A hands-on introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to do cool things in the game you love - Minecraft!
A hands-on introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to do cool things in the game you love--Minecraft! This book takes the robotic "turtle" method, and extends it to the 3D, interactive world of Minecraft.
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Product details

ISBN
9781593278533
Published
2018
Publisher
No Starch Press,US; No Starch Press,US
Height
295 mm
Width
175 mm
Age
J, 02
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
256

Author

Biographical note

Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches programming to kids and adults. Sweigart has written several bestselling programming books for beginners, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, and Cracking Codes with Python (all from No Starch Press).