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PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry PiPyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry PiPosted Mar 24, 2013 13:19 UTC (Sun) by lisch (subscriber, #36574)Parent article: PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi
What intrigues me about the Raspberry Pi and getting kids interested in programming is the Minecraft Pi edition. Both of my kids are deeply into Minecraft. My son wants to write "mods", but he doesn't know anything about programming. I have tried to start him off with Greenfoot and Java, but the payoff is too far in the future. I don't know the details yet, but the plug-in socket in the Pi edition is interesting. Python has a lower learning curve than Java, and he might be able to start playing with Minecraft mods much more easily than standard desktop Minecraft.
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PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Posted Apr 3, 2013 15:52 UTC (Wed) by valhalla (subscriber, #56634) [Link]
One thing that I really like in minetest (a free software minecraft clone) is the choice of lua as a scripting language.
While I am partial to python in general and expecially in education, lua is an excellent choice as a modding language, and it is just as easy to pick up for young future programmers.
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