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  • Series: Adventures In ...
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 17, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 111894691X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118946916
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA gentle and fun introduction to programming with Python
By Gene on December 14, 2014
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I've been teaching my kids (9 & 11) how to program for the past two years. They started off with the Scratch programming language a few years back and now I've decided its time for them to "graduate" to a full blown language. Knowing they like the game Minecraft, I thought combining programming and Minecraft would be ideal, as it would help make programming more interesting for them. This book utilizes the Python language and the Craftbukkit Minecraft server with the Raspberry Juice plugin to implement basically the same Python API that is in MinecraftPi (the Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft). The Pi API is severely limited as compared to the full blown CraftBukkit JAVA API; however, for beginning programmers, this probably will not matter too much.

The book is written with an eye toward the younger reader with the use of graphics, images, and color. It is well written and the authors present the material in an age appropriate way. The book progresses from simple hello-world style programs to finally the construction of an entire 'adventure' type game with scoring, building upon what you learn in each chapter.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood for younger kids, but you need to go slow and emphasize attention to detail
By Denise Patterson VINE VOICE on February 1, 2015
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Got this for my nine year old son, who LOVES Minecraft and has been wanting to design his own mods for about a year, but hasn't had the knowledge to do so. He has some beginner programming experience, he's messed around with Scratch a little and gone through a few programming projects on Khan Academy. So even though the book is aimed at 11-14 year olds, since it also says the early chapters had been tested with kids as young as eight, I figured he would do fine with at least part of it.

My techie husband did the installation, and he was kinda annoyed that it won't run on Linux, but to be fair, the book NEVER said it would, this is just my husband's problem and I mention it only as an FYI for anyone who is wondering if it works on Linux. The Windows install was quick and easy. That is covered in Adventure 1. Adventure 1, 2, and 3 are the ones they recommend for younger kids.

Adventure 1 is the install and a very simple Python program to get a chat window to pop up and say 'Hello Minecraft World'. I think most absolute beginners would need a little help with this adventure, but mostly just to troubleshoot, the instructions are pretty clear and the problem is going to be making sure the kid FOLLOWS them correctly!! :) Adventure 2 teaches the player how to track locations in the Minecraft world, and also how to charge 'rent', which is pretty hilarious. Adventure 3 lets the player make auto-builders in the Minecraft world.

That is as far as we have gotten in about a month. He is working on Adventure 4, which is Interacting with Blocks, but it is a little more involved and he is not always 100% careful, so a certain amount of frustration and debugging has to happen.

But, all in all, this is a good book for younger programmers with little experience, provided there is someone around who can help them if they get into trouble.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFun book to introduce kids to programming
By Karissa Eckert on January 18, 2015
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I got a copy of this book to review through the Amazon Vine program. Overall this was a good book. My computer is running ubuntu 14, and since linux wasn't expressly covered in this book, I was a little worried it might not work out well. In the end I only had to do a few extra things, like install the tk-dev package for python which wasn't included by default with apt get (sudo apt-get install tk-dev), of course I had already made python, so I had to make it again, which was a little annoying.

Other than the above, I was able to follow the instructions in the book, and it worked out (btw, idle should be in your path after the python install, so you don't double click on it in linux). The authors have a kit setup for download for the server (bukkit), which I would have liked the instructions for setup.

After the initial install, it was pretty easy to follow the instructions. This book is setup for someone who has no programming knowledge. I do java development for a living, so most of the book was just basics that I really didn't need to read. I did think that for the most part the explanations were pretty good, but like most technical books, it was a little too wordy for my taste.

I was running through this with my 8 yr old son (who is a diehard Minecraft fan) and he understood pretty quickly what was going on, though some explanations were needed. My son quickly wanted to get off track from what the book was doing, and though that is kind of fun, it made it so that once he had the basics he really wasn't interested in running through the other examples in the book. Right away he wanted to start doing other things.Read more ›
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