Sweigart, Al,

Coding with Minecraft : build taller, farm faster, mine deeper, and automate the boring stuff / by Al Sweigart. - 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"--

9781593278533 (pbk.) 1593278535 (pbk.)

2017046330


Minecraft (Game)
Lua (Computer program language)
Computer programming.

GV1469.35.M535 / S94 2018

794.8 SWE