Coding for Kids: Minecraft® & Lua. NOT COLORFUL VERSION: Beginner's Guide with 127 awesome Activities. An unofficial Minecraft® Book.
Mark A. Morrison
Paperback
(Independently published, Dec. 16, 2019)
NOT COLORFUL, CHEAPER VERSION! The best gift for children - tomorrow's profession. Future programmers and engineers get ready! This is a complete visual guide for children aged 8-12 and their parents with no or little coding experience. This interesting, educational book with 127 wonderful exercises introduces children to the world of coding in Lua, a programming language used by game developers of, e.g. Roblox. The ComputerCraftEdu mod and Minecraft are also used for learning. Learning takes place in a visual editor and involves programming a turtle that will do everything for you: dig, build, detect the type of block, use Redstone and much more. Thanks to the illustrated instructions, step by step you will learn the most important programming concepts such as functions, variables, loops and more. Become a master coding in Minecraft! Don't forget to check the more difficult tasks in our second book.Content: - 127 exercises with solutions at the end of the book - list of completed tasks - basics of a simple and pleasant to learn Lua language (visual editor)- effective learning by playing in the world of Minecraft - topics useful for understanding various programming languages - tasks that develop logical thinking - elements of mathematics. Warning: The images are black and white.NOT COLORFUL, CHEAPER VERSION! Also, check the color version.