Minecraft in Scratch

During the course, the students will learn the basics of programming in the popular visual programming language Scratch. The kid literally programs by playing, composing code with the help of building blocks.

We will learn how to model trees on our own and add them to the Minecraft world generation, create inventory items, new blocks by crafting, add mobs to the game and much more.

At the end of the training, each student creates his own project - a full-fledged Minecraft game developed on the basis of the acquired skills and knowledge, and then presents it to classmates and publishes it.

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At the end of the course, each student receives a personal certificate from CODDY. As well as digital projects for your portfolio.

Why programming?

Programming and digital design are amazing tools for self-expression and self-knowledge.

These are modern skills that will be useful to any kid in almost any career, in any hobby and in life.

The course is suitable for kids:

• Who love to play Minecraft
• Who want to create their own items and worlds in Minecraft
• Who want to understand the mechanics of computer games and create their own games
• Who wish to realize their creativity in the field of IT technologies

Requirements for students (level of knowledge):

• Basic computer skills (launching applications, creating folders, changing the file name, downloading images from the Internet)
• Experience playing Minecraft

About the course:

More and more parents note and support the current trend aimed at the early development of kids. A special place in this case is occupied by the development of computer literacy and technology by kids from an early age. The main difficulty here is to get the guys interested and keep their interest.

The secret of successful learning is to combine what kids love with what will contribute to their development. All kids are fond of computer games. What if you offer a kid to create his own computer game, and even in a programming language designed specifically for kids? And if this is the legendary Minecraft game, then there will definitely be no indifferent! We recommend our course "Minecraft in Scratch" to all coddy kids from 7 years old, because learning programming on it turns into an interesting and fascinating process. Creating your own game is the best way to learn how to program. Especially if you create a game that the whole world loves.

Minecraft is a popular indie sandbox game with elements of a survival simulator and an open world, developed by Swedish programmer Markus Persson. This is one of the most successful computer games in history: its sales exceeded 80 million copies, and the number of registered players exceeded 100 million. The game has almost unlimited possibilities, allowing you to create entire worlds and control the actions of the main characters. Creating a Minecraft game is possible in different programs. But it is unlikely that a seven-year-old kid will have a desire to engage in programming and implementing their own projects in a development environment familiar to an adult programmer. It will be difficult, uninteresting and boring for kids. Therefore, in 2003, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed Scratch, an understandable and fascinating programming language designed specifically for kids. Scratch is not just a language, but a full-fledged visual object-oriented programming environment. It is ideal for teaching elementary and middle school students the basics of programming and creating their own games and animations.

This software environment has a lot of positive qualities:

• simple, easy and user-friendly interface;
• there are no codes to learn;
• colorful design that helps to attract the kid's attention and hold it;
• promotes the development of creative, imaginative and logical thinking.

Scratch, like a Lego constructor, allows you to assemble a full-fledged program from multi-colored blocks-bricks. You can make changes to the program at any time, and immediately see how it works. It is this feature of this programming environment that makes it possible to create an analogue of the famous Minecraft game world on Scratch. Our course is suitable for those who have already mastered the Scratch language and want to deepen their knowledge and find a new application for them.

In the classes of the course "Minecraft in Scratch" your kid:

• will continue to learn the basics of programming;
• improve your knowledge of the Scratch visual language;
• learn how to design game mechanics;
• he will be able to create landscapes, various objects, move them around the screen, modify and play with them, establish forms of interaction between them;
• develop creative skills and spatial thinking;
• create your own unique Minecraft world.

Our experienced teachers will show that programming and gaming can be combined in the most exciting and fascinating way. Welcome to the amazing world of Minecraft computer programming in Scratch!

Video presentation of the course

How are online classes at CODDY

Course content:

• Introduction to Minecraft in Scratch
• Blocks in Minecraft
• Landscape generation
• Steve
• Trees
• Collecting resources
• Inventory
• Construction
• Graphic inventory
• Craft
• Revision of the game
• Game Release

Course objectives:

1. In-depth study of programming in Scratch.
2. Teach kids to create their own Minecraft games.
3. Develop computer skills.

The result of training:

• Knowledge of the basics of Scratch programming and the basic elements of computer science and logic
• Obtaining mathematical knowledge: coordinate system (X and Y axes), geometric shapes, degrees, random number selection, comparison signs
• Improving the understanding of physics, the surrounding world - how the force of attraction works, how to arrange objects proportionally
• Development of rational and spatial thinking
• Knowledge of functions and procedures in Scratch
• Knowledge of the basics of thread synchronization in programming, generation of infinite worlds
• Knowledge of the concept of arrays and access by element number
• Developing skills of working with arrays and lists
• Development of imagination and creative thinking
• A full-fledged Minecraft with the generation of the world, a realistic character who can put, destroy, collect and make blocks

What our customers say:

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The course program: here

Graduates of the course will be able to:

• Create projects in Scratch environment
• Create Minecraft games
• Create simple structures in the coordinate system of the world
• Generate Landscape
• Add mobs and characters to the game and manage them
• Edit the world with a character
• Draw block textures in the character's hand
• Create an inventory showing the quantity of each item
• Apply algorithmic constructions in practice
• Create and present your projects

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