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Nice! I was just looking for something similar to this for my minions. Looks like it assumes programming knowledge (beyond say Scratch) already, no?
Looks like a great guide to get started with coding with Minecraft. There have been some efforts over the years, but this looks really complete. One obstacle for schools to get started with this however, is buying all the Minecraft licenses. To this end, I've been toying around a bit with an open source Minecraft clone called Minetest lately [1][2]. It's surprisingly complete, and could also have great uses in (progr…
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This was on HN a while back, using Minetest for education: http://www.ocsmag.com/2016/04/04/mining-for-education/ My 5yo son has been playing Minetest for a number of months now and loves it. He has asked for certain features---e.g. having fire truck be able to shoot water to put out fires rather than having to get out and use buckets of water---and I intend to walk him through adding that feature and others as he ge…
>> My 5yo son has been playing Minetest for a number of months now and loves it. Thanks! This is the type of actionable anecdata that I can use. I wasn't sure if it was too early to introduce my children to Mine[craft|test] at such an early age, but glad to hear that it's encouraging discourse and inquiry.
Any parents here have any success inspiring their child to code who was averse to it? I've tried scratch, tynker, roblox, etc without much luck.