Coding with Minecraft : build taller, farm faster, mine deeper, and automate stuff / Al Sweigart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweigart, Al, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minecraft (Game).

Lua (Computer program language).

Computer programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 Coding with Minecraft®, 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. Learn how to: • 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 Bonus activities in each chapter will help you take your coding skills to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll understand how powerful coding can be and have plenty of robots at your beck and call. Requires: Windows 7 or later; macOS 10.10 or later.

Contents:

Installing Minecraft and Computercraft

Lua programming basics

Talking to your turtle

Programming turtles to dance

Making a better dancer

Programming a robolumberjack

Creating modules to reuse your code

Running an automated tree farm

Building a cobblestone generator

Making a stone brick factory

Constructing walls

Room-constructing robots

Floor-constructing robots

Programming farm bots

Programming a staircase miner.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Sweigart, Al, author. Coding with Minecraft

ISBN:

9781492067603

1492067601

9781593278540

1593278543

9781593278533

1593278535

OCLC:

1041858445