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You ve bested creepers, traveled deep into caves, and maybe even gone to The End and back but have you ever transformed a sword into a magic wand? Built a palace in the blink of an eye? Designed your own color-changing disco dance floor? In Learn to Program with Minecraft®, you ll do all this and more with the power of Python, a free language used by millions of professional and first-time programmers! Begin with some short, simple Python lessons and then use your new skills to modify Minecraft to produce instant and totally awesome results. Learn how to customize Minecraft to make mini-games, duplicate entire buildings, and turn boring blocks into gold. 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 Whether you re a Minecraft megafan or a newbie, you ll see Minecraft in a whole new light while learning the basics of programming. Sure, you could spend all day mining for precious resources or building your mansion by hand, but with the power of Python, those days are over! Requires: Windows 7 or later; OS X 10.10 or later; or a Raspberry Pi. Uses Python 3

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

About the Author :
Craig Richardson is a longtime software developer and Python teacher. He has worked for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, presented at Raspberry Pi events, and led workshops on Python programming with Minecraft Pi.

Review :
"This book makes it easy for you and your middle and high school students to learn how to program in Python through very engaging Minecraft projects." —EdSurge " Not only would this book be great for motivated individuals, but teachers, tech coaches, librarians, and club leaders could use it as a basis for conducting their own classes and workshops." —School Library Connection


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781593276706
  • Publisher: No Starch Press,US
  • Publisher Imprint: No Starch Press,US
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1593276702
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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