Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Sweigart, Al,

Coding with Minecraft : build taller, farm faster, mine deeper, and automate the boring stuff / by Al Sweigart. - San Francisco : No Starch Press, Inc., 2018. - xxi, 233 pages; color illustrations; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"A guide to using ComputerCraft and the Lua programming language to automate bots in Minecraft. This book teaches computer science and programming basics and transforms Minecraft from just a video game into an educational tool"--

ISBN: 9781593278533 1593278535

LCCN: 2017046330

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Minecraft (Game)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Juvenile literature.
Lua (Computer program language)--Juvenile literature.
Computer programming--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: GV1469.35.M535 / S94 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 794.8