[GTALUG] Java coding education/tutorials

[David Collier-Brown]

On 10/22/2014 07:00 AM, Thomas Milne wrote:
> My son is all motivated to learn Java so that he can hack around in 
> Minecraft, so I'm looking for ways for him to get started. I have no 
> coding background either, so I am equally lost.
>
> We are working with Alice right now, and I think it's giving him the 
> basic idea, but I'm not sure how far Alice can take him. On the one 
> hand I'm tempted to just start mangling some Minecraft code and learn 
> that way, but I don't want to ruin the momentum here.
>
> Can anyone recommend something to get him to the next stage?
>
> I've been desperate to get him to start to learn coding so I don't 
> want to waste this opportunity now that he's actually motivated! :-)
>
> -- 
> Thomas Milne
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Join a minecraft modding discussion and start trying things, perhaps 
initially by applying someone else's mod to "see how to do the worked 
example".

That's what I do whenever I start in an unfamiliar area (like Halflife 2 
DM, which is not the usual kind of program I work with).

--dave

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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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