Coding with Minecraft: Build Taller, Farm Faster, Mine Deeper, and Automate the Boring Stuff

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Coding with Minecraft: Build Taller, Farm Faster, Mine Deeper, and Automate the Boring Stuff

You’ve mined for diamonds, crafted dozens of tools, and built all sorts of structures—but what if you could program robots to do all of that for you in a fraction of the time?

In Coding with Minecraft®, you’ll create a virtual robot army with Lua, a programming language used by professional game developers. Step-by-step coding projects will show you how to write programs that automatically dig mines, collect materials, craft items, and build anything that you can imagine. Along the way, you’ll explore key computer science concepts like data types, functions, variables, and more.

Bonus activities in each chapter will help you take your coding skills to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll understand how powerful coding can be and have plenty of robots at your beck and call.

Requires: Minecraft Java Edition; Windows 7 or later; macOS 10.10 or later.

Ages 13+

Learn how to:

  • Program robots that make smart decisions with flow control
  • Reuse code so that your robots can farm any crop you want, including wheat, sugar cane, and even cacti!
  • Program a factory that generates infinite building supplies
  • Design an algorithm for creating walls and buildings of any size
  • Code yourself a pickaxe-swinging robotic lumberjack!
  • Create a robot that digs mine shafts with stairs so you can explore safely

Table of contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Minecraft and Computercraft

Chapter 2: Basic Lua Programming for Turtles

Chapter 3: Talking to Your Turtle

Chapter 4: Programming Turtles to Dance

Chapter 5: Making a Better Dancer

Chapter 6: Programming a Robo Lumberjack

Chapter 7: Creating Modules to Reuse Your Code

Chapter 8: Running an Automated Tree Farm

Chapter 9: Building a Cobblestone Generator

Chapter 10: Making a Stone Brick Factory

Chapter 11: Constructing Walls

Chapter 12: Constructing Rooms

Chapter 13: Constructing Floors

Chapter 14: Programming a Robotic Farm

Chapter 15: Programming a Staircase Miner

Appendix A: Function Reference

Appendix B: Name ID Reference

 

Check out the book's dedicated website for more downloadable files for the book!

***Requires: Minecraft Java Edition; Windows 7 or later; macOS 10.10 or later.***

Author: Al Sweigart

May 2018, 256 pp.

ISBN-13: 9781593278533

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