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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Minecraft and Your Kids

Minecraft has been around in it's Alpha version since 2011 and has taken the video gaming world by storm. It has more than 10 million subscribers worldwide. In addition, educators around the world are using it in their lessons from as low as KG up to university level.

What's so special about Minecraft?
It is no ordinary video game. Minecraft is a sandbox game: a game which you play online but it has no rules, no limits. I liken it to it being able to have the whole world outside your backdoor where you can invite your friends or play alone. You can build anything you like, go exploring, create tools so you can survive and just have fun. It's the ultimate playground!



Tech Columnist, Dan Tynan, explains it well in his latest column; A Parent's Guide to Minecraft; 5 Reasons to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Cubes.






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  1. Unknown5/26/2014

    As mentioned in the 26 May tech talk regarding the importance and use of programming (coding) in our everyday lives, even in Minecraft. There is a programming language called Java that the kids use to create/programme from scratch their own Minecraft world, called a mod. Here is the link:https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/master/docs/YoungPersonsGuideToProgrammingMinecraft.md

    It has many kids gripped. The above link will take to the "Young Persons guide to Programming in Minecraft" tutorial.

    Also the following link is also helpful: https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/introducing_kids_to_java_programming

    Thank you

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