- Lesson plan is based on a 10am - 4pm day (including snack breaks!)
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Building Instructions:
- B (Block) x, y, z
- B (Block) (start-end) (start-end) (start-end)
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🏆 Human Programmer Computer Challenges:
- 4x3 wall
- 3x3 cube
- 8x pyramid
- fort
- Video: What is a Raspberry?
- Pi board
- SD Card (pre-setup)
- HDMI (display) cable
- Wifi
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Power
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What is Minecraft?
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What is Minecraft Pi? (features and limitations)
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Play the game!
- Menu -> Minecraft
- Start Game -> Create New (you can create new worlds till you get one you like)
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Keys:
Key Action W Forward A Left S Backward D Right Left-click Hit Right-click Place block Mouse-scroll Hotbar select E Inventory Space Jump / Fly up Left Shift Crouch / Fly down Double Space Fly / Fall Esc Pause / Game menu Tab Release mouse cursor
- Minecraft coordinate system:
- x-axis: East (positive), West (negative)
- z-axis: South (positive), North (negative)
- y-axis: High (positive), Low (negative)
- Right-handed coordinates: thumb = x, index = y, middle = z
- 🏆 Challenges
- Move to position 0,0,0
- Learn to fly and swim
- What is the (y) coordinate of sea-level?
- How big (x, z) is your world?
- Can you find the South East corner of your world?
- Build a house with stone walls, door, windows and wooden roof (bonus: fence around the house)
- What are the dimensions (x, y, z) of your house?
- Why Python?
- Video: Pair Programming (from code.org)
- Jupyter Notebook
- Minecraft Bingo