Download or read book Coding for Kids: Minecraft® and Lua written by Mark A. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRISTMAS VERSION! The best gift for children - tomorrow's profession. Future programmers and engineers get ready! This is a complete visual guide for children aged 8-12 and their parents with no or little coding experience. This interesting, educational book with 127 wonderful exercises introduces children to the world of coding in Lua, a programming language used by game developers of, e.g. Roblox. The ComputerCraftEdu mod and Minecraft are also used for learning. Learning takes place in a visual editor and involves programming a turtle that will do everything for you: dig, build, detect the type of block, use Redstone and much more. Thanks to the illustrated instructions, step by step you will learn the most important programming concepts such as functions, variables, loops and more. Become a master coding in Minecraft! Don't forget to check the more difficult tasks in our second book. Content - 127 exercises with solutions at the end of the book - list of completed tasks - basics of a simple and pleasant to learn Lua language (visual editor) - effective learning by playing in the world of Minecraft - topics useful for understanding various programming languages - tasks that develop logical thinking - elements of mathematics.