Adventures in Minecraft®, Second Edition by O'Hanlon, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page About the Authors Table of Contents Foreword Introduction

What Is Minecraft? What Is Minecraft Programming? Who Should Read This Book? What You Will Learn What We Assume You Already Know What You Need for the Projects A Note for Parents and Teachers The Companion Website Other Sources of Help Conventions Reaching Out

Adventure 1: Hello Minecraft World

Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi to Program Minecraft Setting Up Your PC or Apple Mac to Program Minecraft Creating a Program Running a Program

Adventure 2: Tracking Your Players as They Move

Sensing Your Player’s Position Building the Welcome Home Game Using Geo-Fencing to Charge Rent Moving Your Player Further Adventures in Tracking Your Player

Adventure 3: Building Anything Automatically

Creating Blocks Building More Than One Block Using for Loops Clearing Some Space Building a House Building More Than One House Adding Random Carpets Further Adventures in Building Anything

Adventure 4: Interacting with Blocks

Finding Out What You Are Standing On Using Python Lists as Magic Memory Sensing That a Block Has Been Hit Writing a Treasure Hunt Game Further Adventures in Interacting with Blocks

Adventure 5: Using Data Files

Reading Data from a File Building Mazes from a Data File Building a 3D Block Printer Building a 3D Block Scanner Building a Duplicating Machine Further Adventures in Data Files

Adventure 6: Building 2D and 3D Structures

The minecraftstuff Module Creating Lines, Circles and Spheres Creating a Minecraft Clock Drawing Polygons Pyramids Further Adventures with 2D and 3D Shapes

Adventure 7: Giving Blocks a Mind of Their Own

Your Block Friend Using Random Numbers to Make Your Block Friend More Interesting Bigger Shapes Alien Invasion Further Adventures in Simulation

Adventure 8: Building a Game Controller with a BBC micro:bit

What You Need for This Adventure What Is a BBC micro:bit? Setting Up Your Computer to Connect to Your BBC micro:bit Hello BBC micro:bit The Magic Doormat Revisited Making a Detonator Writing a Ball-Rolling Game Further Adventures with Your BBC micro:bit Game Controller

Adventure 9: The Big Adventure: Crafty Crossing

A Game within a Game Part 1: Building the Arena Part 2: Creating the Obstacles Part 3: Game Play Part 4: Adding a Button and Display Further Adventures in Your Continuing Journey with Minecraft

Appendix A: Where to Go from Here

Websites Videos Books

Appendix B: Quick Reference Glossary End User License Agreement