Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft

Re:Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft by sdegutis on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:17AM (#10936206)

My 11 year old son has been programming in Scratch for a few years, and kind of hit a dead end. So we recently bought him Sams Teach Yourself Mod Development for Minecraft in 24 Hours. It goes straight into some pretty heavy Java, but with a lot of hand-holding. He's really loving it so far, and seems to be learning a lot and making good progress.

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Re:Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft by ciroduran on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:23AM (#10936871)

There's this Greenfoot (http://www.greenfoot.org/) environment I've been hearing about. It has a visual interface that allows you to put sprites and assemble a game, but it also has Java foundations. It might be another option for that transition between a visual tool and a programming language.

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Re:Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft by zappo2938 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:38AM (#10937394)

Have you tried Code Combat? [1] Or, Vim Adventures? [2] Of course, you might skip the vim because real programmers use emacs.

[1] https://codecombat.com

[2] http://vim-adventures.com/

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Re:Execute BASIC Programs in Minecraft by sdegutis on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:40AM (#10937936)

We all know real programmers use butterflies. I've been letting my son focus on the code rather than the editor, so he's using Eclipse per the aforementioned book's recommendation.

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