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Summer 2024
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Minecraft Game Coder

Age guide: 9 to 12

Location Camps

5 days (Full Day) £575
Residential £1295 £1595
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Coding within Minecraft. 

By leveraging your child’s enthusiasm, the Minecraft Coder course will teach them how to code. 

They will develop logical and critical thinking skills as they learn fundamental coding constructs such as variables, conditional statements, loops, functions and so much more. 

It’s a fun and engaging course that teaches your child how to create and code complex and innovative projects in Minecraft. 


Pre-requisites

  • Proficient in Minecraft

What your child will learn

Intermediate to Advanced Skills

  • Minecraft Introduction (Survival Mode, Mining, Smelting, Fighting)
  • MakeCode Introduction
  • Co-ordintates (World, Relative)
  • Block Management (Placing Blocks, Filling Areas, Clearing Areas, Cloning Areas)
  • Iteration (Repeat)
  • Events (On Step, On Died, On Item Used, On Shoot)
  • Actions (Spawn, Teleportation)
  • Commands (Custom, Execute)
  • MakeCode
  • Variables (Co-ordinates, Numbers)
  • Branching (If, Else, If Else, Nesting)
  • Relational Operators (Equals, Greater Than, Less Than)
  • Logical Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Iteration (Forever, For Loop, While Loop, Nesting, Pause)
  • Agent (Moving, Destroying, Collecting Blocks, Placing Blocks, Place On Move, Detecting Blocks)

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Bring your own laptop

    Chromebooks and iPads are not supported

To avoid increasing our fees for summer 2023, we have introduced the option for your child to bring their own laptop.

Chromebooks and iPads are not supported.

Important - Software Installation

  • Software required for the course must be installed prior to arriving at the camp and your child will require admin access.
  • Please note: school/work laptops may have restrictions.
  • Installation instructions will be available on your FunTech Parent portal upon receipt of full payment from 1st July.
  • Free technical support is available.
  • If course software is not installed upon arrival at the camp, FunTech will complete the installation for your child at an additional charge of £55, however, please note that your child will miss some of the course.

Minimum system requirements

  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later or OS X 10.9 or later
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-3210 / AMD A8-7600 APU or equivalent 
  • Memory: 8GB (8,192MB) RAM
  • Free HDD space: 2GB 
  • Graphics requirements known as GPU (Graphics Processing Unit): any GPU that supports OpenGL 4.4
  • Hardware: keyboard, mouse, and headset with microphone

Find your computers’ tech specs:  Windows  |  Mac

 

Rent a FunTech laptop

    Laptops cannot be rented upon arrival at the camp.

If you prefer, you can rent a laptop from FunTech with all the software pre-installed for £60 per week. This will be an optional extra during the booking process.

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