I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You (2018)

Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by pydry on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:06AM (#23447865)

my nephews asked for it. it was Minecraft that got them into it. unfortunately that also meant that they wanted to learn Java, so they will probably be put off for life.

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Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by jkhdigital on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:10AM (#23447904)

Yep, same with my son. Minecraft just might be the most singularly influential phenomenon in an entire generation of budding software engineers.

My son, who is not yet 6, will watch YouTube videos about creating something in Minecraft and then build it almost exactly to spec later, not while watching the video. This includes some redstone contraptions. It’s pretty mind-blowing to watch him.

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Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by BiteCode_dev on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:07AM (#23447880)

I always believed that minecraft had a plugin system allowing the use of many programming language. Did MS remove that when buying it?

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Re:I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neith... by jb0x168 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:58PM (#23450254)

You can bridge scripting from any programming language into minecraft through the use of plugins.

The educational versions of minecraft (e.g. the raspi version) integrate python scripting directly.

Microsoft forked a "bedrock" version of minecraft that I'm not as familiar with and that has a different plugin ecosystem. The Java-based version still has all the same plugin capabilities it always has.

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