Learn to Program with Minecraft: Transform Your World with the Power of Python

You’ll also write programs that:

• Take you on an automated teleportation tour around your Minecraft world
• Build massive monuments, pyramids, forests, and more in a snap!
• Make secret passageways that open when you activate a hidden switch
• Create a spooky ghost town that vanishes and reappears elsewhere
• Show exactly where to dig for rare blocks
• Cast a spell so that a cascade of flowers (or dynamite if you’re daring!) follows your every move
• Make mischief with dastardly lava traps and watery curses that cause huge floods

Table of contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Setting Up for Your Adventure

Chapter 2: Teleporting with Variables

Chapter 3: Building Quickly and Traveling Far with Math

Chapter 4: Chatting with Strings

Chapter 5: Figuring Out What's True and False with Booleans

Chapter 6: Making Mini-Games with if Statements

Chapter 7: Dance Parties and Flower Parades with while Loops

Chapter 8: Functions Give You Superpowers

Chapter 9: Hitting Things with Lists and Dictionaries

Chapter 10: Minecraft Magic with for Loops

Chapter 11: Saving and Loading Buildings with Files and Modules

Chapter 12: Getting Classy with Object-Oriented Programming

Afterword

Block ID Cheat Sheet

***Requires: Minecraft Java Edition; Windows 7 or later; OS X 10.10 or later; or a Raspberry Pi.***

***Uses Python 3***

Author: Craig Richardson

December 2015, 336 pp.

ISBN-13: 9781593276706

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