• Title Coding with Minecraft: Learn to Code by Programming Robots in Minecraft!
• Author(s) Al Sweigart
• Publisher: No Starch Press (May 29, 2018); eBook (Creative Commons Edition)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
• Paperback: 256 pages
• eBook: PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593278535
• ISBN-13: 978-1593278533
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Book Description

A hands-on introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to do cool things in the game you love - Minecraft! This book takes the robotic "turtle" method, and extends it to the 3D, interactive world of Minecraft.

You've mined for diamonds, crafted dozens of tools, and built all sorts of structures - but what if you could program robots to do all of that for you in a fraction of the time?

In this book, you'll create a virtual robot army with Lua, a programming language used by professional game developers. Step-by-step coding projects will show you how to write programs that automatically dig mines, collect materials, craft items, and build anything that you can imagine. Along the way, you'll explore key computer science concepts like data types, functions, variables, and more.

You'll learn to make games like:

• Program robots that make smart decisions with flow control
• Reuse code so that your robots can farm any crop you want, including wheat, sugar cane, and even cacti!
• Program a factory that generates infinite building supplies
• Design an algorithm for creating walls and buildings of any size
• Code yourself a pickaxe-swinging robotic lumberjack!
• Create a robot that digs mine shafts with stairs so you can explore safely

• Al Sweigart is a software developer and teaches programming to kids and adults. He has written several Python books for beginners, including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, and Making Games with Python and Pygame.

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• Computer and Video Game Programming
• New and Miscellaneous Computer/Programming Languages

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