Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at readers who have no experience programming, but who do have some experience playing Minecraft. If you aren’t familiar with Minecraft, there are plenty of videos and books to help you get started. But I’m guessing you’re already pretty adept at and enthusiastic about Minecraft, and you want to learn the programming end.

Readers younger than 8 or 9, or readers of any age who are having trouble understanding programming in Java, might want to take a short detour and experiment with a friendlier programming language first. Scratch and the newer version, Snap!,[1][2] are great little languages that help you learn the basic concepts of programming. They show how programming elements fit together visually. ...

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