Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Teaching with Minecraft -- Part Three

You might think, at my advanced age, that I would be immune to surprise -- I have, after all, encountered IRA gunmen during a bank robbery in Dublin, fallen off a ticketing counter in Hong Kong, been swept into a sewer during a hurricaine in Taiwan, almost had my car washed off a coast road on Oahu during another hurricaine, run the hills of Aberystwyth in Wales... but still, I find myself wide eyed with wonder at the many amazing things that fill this world -- and one of the most awe inspiring of these for me (given my geekish tendencies!) is the depth and breadth of the internet. The sheer volume of information -- both good and bad -- that can be found on the web is astonishing. And so, I come to you with yet more information on teaching with Minecraft... Today's post will focus on teaching computer programming since that is my own personal focus today:

1)How to Program a Minecraft Plugin  -- first up, from our friends at Planet Minecraft is the following blog post.

2)Young Person's Guide to Programming Minecraft  -- Now this particular approach is for those who want to dive in and get started. It is not a ground up, make sure you know the details sort of teaching. That said, some folks do prefer this.      
       
      a) Click HERE to get ScriptCraft 

3) JAVA Programming Tutorial - 1 - Installing the JDK The New Boston Java tutorials on Youtube are the ones recommended by KHAN academy's coding folks. There are other people on Youtube who specifically coffer Java programming for Minecraft such as:
   




4) For those who want a more basic JAVA course, here is a free Learn Java site
5) And, if you already know something about programming, here is a free JavaScript for Beginners site

As this is the Internet, there are sure to be many, many more adventures to come! Happy daze!
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