Synopses & Reviews
Here's your ticket to a world of adventures with Minecraft and programming.Learn how to extend Minecraft and create a new gaming experience, by exploring the magical world of Minecraft programming. Adventures in Minecraft, like other books in the highly successful Adventures series, is written especially for 11- to 15-year-olds. With this book you will learn new programming skills while having fun with Minecraft!
Minecraft programming experts David Whale and Martin O'Hanlon walk you step-by-step through everything you need to know to:
- Get started writing Minecraft programs in Python on your PC, Mac, or Raspberry Pi
- Build houses and other structures in the blink of an eye, and make a 3D duplicating machine
- Write interactive games like a field that charges you rent, and a treasure hunt using magic vanishing bridges
- Build custom game control panels using simple electronic circuits
- Easily build huge 2D and 3D structures such as spheres and pyramids
- Build intelligent objects like a massive Minecraft clock, and program an alien invasion
- Plan and write a complete interactive arena game
Using the programming skills you learn from this book, writing Minecraft programs offers endless possibilities to create anything you can imagine.
To make your journey that much easier, the Adventures in Minecraft companion website supplies you with video tutorials for every project in the book, downloadable code files, helpful programming reference tables, a bonus adventure, and badges to collect for your Minecraft accomplishments.
By day, David Whale and Martin O'Hanlon are software engineers who design computer products. By night, they play Minecraft and develop exciting new programs that interact with the Minecraft world. They both work regularly with young people in schools, computing clubs and at community events, giving talks about Minecraft programming and running programming workshops.
Synopsis
Adventures in Minecraft is the perfect book for young people who want to learn how to program Minecraft but need a little heads-up on where to begin. The Adventures series has been specifically designed to appeal to young people as they begin their adventures with technology, with a layout that will appeal to school age students and carefully tailored projects which allow them to learn while having fun.
Based on 9 fun projects that start at the most rudimentary level of how to set up Minecraft, the book assumes no previous computing knowledge and explains concepts other books presume that the reader will already know. Through the projects, the young reader will pick up the skills to make the most of Minecraft, and more importantly, to understand the basic programming and concepts that they can then apply on other projects and devices. Each chapter will be accompanied by a video that will back up the lessons from the project and ensure the reader has all the support they need.
Authored by Minecraft experts David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon, Adventures in Minecraft is written specifically for the self-teaching 11- to 15-year old who wants to learn how to set up and play with the Minecraft.