Minecraft 101: Minecraft Modding with MakeCode
Minecraft is a sandbox video game where players navigate a 3D computer generated world. It is open ended where players pursue a variety of goals such as exploration, building, combat, and survival. Originally created by the game programmer Markus Persson, Minecraft was developed into an elaborate gameplay system by the Swedish company Mojang. Mojang was later acquired by Microsoft in 2014 which helped create new versions such as Minecraft: Education Edition (for students, teachers, and schools) and new visual programming extensions such as Microsoft MakeCode (to program Minecraft). In this course, we will use MakeCode to write Minecraft mods and alter the behavior of Minecraft in fun and interesting ways.
What you need to know
Students are expected to know how to construct and navigate Minecraft worlds.
What you will learn
The MakeCode visual programming environment
Walking and flying programmatically
Modifying the weather
Minecraft’s 3D coordinate system
Planting and building structures
Constructing towers and pyramids
Spawning entities programmatically
