On 10/22/2014 07:00 AM, Thomas Milne wrote:
My son is all motivated to learn Java so that he can hack around in Minecraft, so I'm looking for ways for him to get started. I have no coding background either, so I am equally lost.
We are working with Alice right now, and I think it's giving him the basic idea, but I'm not sure how far Alice can take him. On the one hand I'm tempted to just start mangling some Minecraft code and learn that way, but I don't want to ruin the momentum here.
Can anyone recommend something to get him to the next stage?
I've been desperate to get him to start to learn coding so I don't want to waste this opportunity now that he's actually motivated! :-)
-- Thomas Milne
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Join a minecraft modding discussion and start trying things, perhaps initially by applying someone else's mod to "see how to do the worked example". That's what I do whenever I start in an unfamiliar area (like Halflife 2 DM, which is not the usual kind of program I work with). --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain