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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
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
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 £70 per week. This will be an optional extra during the booking process.
About this camp
By leveraging your child’s enthusiasm for Minecraft, this course will give them an insight into coding.
Our course uses Minecraft Education Edition and MakeCode, a visual scripting language, to teach your child how to control and customise their Minecraft world.
Using the techniques in this course, your child can clear vast areas in their world with a click of a button, continuously spawn chickens from the sky, teleport home when they die or fill their entire home with gold – their imagination is the limit!
Your child will use coding constructs, such as variables, if, else and else if statements, for loops, while loops and much more, to control their Minecraft worlds.
With an introduction to boolean logic, using AND, OR and NOT, they’ll have greater power over when actions occur, based on more involved conditions.
That’s when they’ll be introduced to agents! Now your child has an automated robot they can program to move, interact and build. Soon they’ll be mining for ore, building complex contraptions and even fighting off enemies for them.
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 Virtual |
Swap to another Virtual, Flexi, In-Person or Residential Camp |
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Swap to another Flexi, Virtual, In-Person or Residential Camp |
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Camp Swap are available up to two weeks prior to camp start date and subject to availability.