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@dhuntley1023 @joedean @marcyDel - check this out!

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My husband, Bob, recently finished writing tutorials on Minecraft Mods and
Plugins with corresponding Github, you can check it out to see if it is
something you can use. My 13 yo son is the only person so far that has
started going through it, self-guided, and seems to be fine with it, but my
son is also familiar with many of the tools, etc. My husband volunteered
to mentor at Hack The Future 10 in Dublin tomorrow at their minecraft
station if they need it, so he'll also have a chance there to see how kids
with a range of experience deal with it, if HtF decides to use it. He is
using Forge and Bukkit.

http://www.lopakalogic.com/articles/minecraft-articles/minecraft-mods-forge/

http://www.lopakalogic.com/articles/minecraft-articles/minecraft-bukkit-plugins/

Val

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I think “Tech Mentor Meetup Training” will be really good to get more tech mentors trained and help support these sessions. I would also consider including parent of participants who would like to co-program with their kids, or any adults who would like to understand enough to be potential tech mentors.. yes, we'll convert them sooner or later. The more we educate the better, and eventually growing our network of tech mentors. This will be an awesome educational benefit and a great addition to our diverse portfolio of programs. Let’s do it!

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Thanks Valerie. This is an excellent resource and really well written. I’d love to connect with your husband to get his perspective on the depth of material vs. kid’s skill levels. Would you mind passing on his email?

I’ve also added it to a topic I created in our Minecraft repo to pull together best-of-breed existing Minecraft resources and have added links to his work from there. (#2)

Thanks again,

David.

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I'm planning to have my first Minecraft programming session with "beginners" on Tuesday 1/28. I'm basically going to use the book "Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins" by Andy Hunt as my text book for these sessions. I really like the flow of the book. There is a lot being introduced to beginners, which can have major impact on the kids experience. (E.g., Dealing with command line, getting used to a text editor ( I like the simplicity of Sublime for beginners over big IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, etc), how to setup a client / server environment, etc) All this before you even get to programming in Java.

My Prerequisites for this session are:
(1) Have a Minecraft account
(2) Feel comfortable in Scratch or scratch like programming and understand the major concepts of loops, conditionals, messaging, cloning, etc
(3) Have sublime downloaded and ready to use

My first session was just going to have the kids get used to dealing with the command line and connect into a server. And I was basically going to just show them some examples of finite state machines in the game. Teaching them what a finite state machine is and some in game examples. Maybe have them build there own, depending on time. For this first session I also want to set the expectation that it's going to require some work before we get to flying creepers and flaming cows.

So, I'm doing this all with my 11 year old son who's a Minecraft guru and loves to code with scratch, tynker, snap, etc. He is new to Java and fairly new to text based programming languages and I'm fairly new to Minecraft so it's a fun match. We have been spending the last couple of days pair programming together and it has been quite an awesome father/son bonding experience! :-) So, I have lots more planning and work to do until the 28th, but time is approaching and any advice that you guys can provide I would really appreciate it!

Maybe we should all meet or do a Google hangout or something. That would be fun.

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Hey everyone.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how we can develop a Minecraft track! I have also connected with Arun Gupta who is leading the Devoxx for Kids Minecraft session on January 19th and has also done similar work with Silicon Valley Code Camp. He has agreed to do a similar workshop or track for CoderDojo. I will be attending Arun's workshop on January 19th

I have a few comments for all to ponder:

1. For those of you with daughters, what content or projects would best interest girls who use Minecraft?
2. How can we best prepare the participants and parents to understand the "risks" of modding Minecraft. For example, what happens when a new Minecraft version is released.
3. Is there any need to know Minecraft user names of participants?
4. Is it possible for someone to not own Minecraft and have enough experience to participate? For example, those that only have played Pocket edition?
5. Along the lines of free and open source, Minecraft is in a bit of a gray area. Howeve, just like we ask those without computers to "borrow one", we could do the same with regards to Minecraft. That is, ask them to" borrow a computer with Minecraft on it". We could also have some computers on hand for anyone who does not own Minecraft. Thoughts?

Marcy

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Thanks, David. My husband Bob's email is [email protected].

Val

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:00 PM, dhuntley1023 [email protected]:

Thanks Valerie. This is an excellent resource and really well written. I’d
love to connect with your husband to get his perspective on the depth of
material vs. kid’s skill levels. Would you mind passing on his email?

I’ve also added it to a topic I created in our Minecraft repo to pull
together best-of-breed existing Minecraft resources and have added links to
his work from there. (
#2)

Thanks again,

David.

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From: valeriefreitas
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:23 AM
To: CoderDojoSV/MinecraftMods
Cc: David Huntley

My husband, Bob, recently finished writing tutorials on Minecraft Mods and
Plugins with corresponding Github, you can check it out to see if it is
something you can use. My 13 yo son is the only person so far that has
started going through it, self-guided, and seems to be fine with it, but
my
son is also familiar with many of the tools, etc. My husband volunteered
to mentor at Hack The Future 10 in Dublin tomorrow at their minecraft
station if they need it, so he'll also have a chance there to see how kids
with a range of experience deal with it, if HtF decides to use it. He is
using Forge and Bukkit.

http://www.lopakalogic.com/articles/minecraft-articles/minecraft-mods-forge/

http://www.lopakalogic.com/articles/minecraft-articles/minecraft-bukkit-plugins/

Val
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Even for just .jar hacking, you'd still need to load other software, so if
you borrow a computer, the owner would have to have more than minecraft
installed but I think also Eclipse and Forge.

Along the lines of free and open source, Minecraft is in a bit of a gray
area. Howeve, just like we ask those without computers to "borrow one", we
could do the same with regards to Minecraft. That is, ask them to" borrow a
computer with Minecraft on it". We could also have some computers on hand
for anyone who does not own Minecraft. Thoughts?

Marcy

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