Adventures in Minecraft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whale, David.

Contributor:

O'Hanlon, Martin.

Series:

Adventures In ....

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here's your ticket to a world of adventures with Minecraft and programming. Learn how to extend Minecraft and create a new gaming experience, by exploring the magical world of Minecraft programming. Adventures in Minecraft, like other books in the highly successful Adventures series, is written especially for 11- to 15-year-olds. With this book you will learn new programming skills while having fun with Minecraft! Minecraft programming experts David Whale and Martin O'Hanlon walk you step-by-step through everything you need to know to: Get started writing Minecraft programs in Python on you

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Authors; Contents; Introduction; What Is Minecraft?; The Virtual World; How Did Minecraft Come About?; What Is Minecraft Programming?; Who Should Read This Book?; What You Will Learn; What We Assume You Already Know; What You Will Need for the Projects; A Note for Parents and Teachers; How This Book Is Organised; The Companion Website; Other Sources of Help; Conventions; Reaching Out; Adventure 1: Hello Minecraft World; Setting up Your Raspberry Pi to Program Minecraft; Installing Minecraft on Your Raspberry Pi; Starting Minecraft on Your Raspberry Pi

Setting up Your PC or Apple Mac to Program MinecraftInstalling the Starter Kit and Python on Your Windows PC; Installing the Starter Kit and Python on Your Apple Mac; Starting Minecraft on Your Windows PC or Apple Mac; Stopping Bukkit; Creating a Program; Running a Program; Stopping a Program; Adventure 2: Tracking Your Players as They Move; Sensing Your Player's Position; Getting Started; Showing Your Player's Position; Tidying Up Your Position Display; Using postToChat to Change Where Your Position Displays; Introducing a Game Loop; Building the Welcome Home Game

Using if Statements to Make a Magic DoormatChecking if Your Player Is at a Particular Location; Building a Magic Doormat; Writing the Welcome Home Game; Using Geo-Fencing to Charge Rent; Working out the Corner Coordinates of the Field; Writing the Geo-Fence Program; Moving Your Player; Further Adventures in Tracking Your Player; Adventure 3: Building Anything Automatically; Creating Blocks; Building More than One Block; Using for Loops; Building Multiple Blocks with a for Loop; Building a Huge Tower with a for Loop; Clearing Some Space; Using setBlocks to Build Even Faster

Reading Input from the KeyboardBuilding a House; Building More than One House; Using Python Functions; Building a Street of Houses with a for Loop; Adding Random Carpets; Generating Random Numbers; Laying the Carpets; Further Adventures in Building Anything; Adventure 4: Interacting with Blocks; Finding Out What You Are Standing On; Finding out if Your Feet Are on the Ground; Building Magic Bridges; Using Python Lists as Magic Memory; Experimenting with Lists; Building Vanishing Bridges with a Python List; Sensing that a Block Has Been Hit; Writing a Treasure Hunt Game

Writing the Functions and the Main Game LoopPlacing Treasure in the Sky; Collecting Treasure when It Is Hit; Adding a Homing Beacon; Adding Your Bridge Builder; Further Adventures in Interacting with Blocks; Adventure 5: Interacting with Electronic Circuits; What You Will Need for this Adventure; Prototyping Electronics with a Breadboard; Building a Circuit that Lights an LED; Connecting Electronics to Your Computer; Setting Up the PC or Mac to Control Electronic Circuits; Configuring the Drivers; Finding the Serial Port Number; Controlling an LED; Lighting Up an LED from your Computer

Flashing the LED

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781118946855

1118946855

9781118946848

1118946847

OCLC:

903939193