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How to teach positions
Learning about positions is crucial in Minecraft Education because mostly anything you may want to build using code will definitely require an understanding of this concept. As a teacher, reading…
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Game: Build a cage to trap your enemies
In this game, the student can type a chat command that will surround them (and their enemies) inside a cage. The cage can be of any size the player wants.…
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Here’s why you want to use absolute positions in your code
Lets say you want to build a dumbbell programmatically, that is, using code. The basic structure of a dumbbell can be reduced to two spheres joined by a line, so…
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Hosting a world vs separate worlds
One thing that wasn’t clear to me as I was starting my Minecraft Education journey was how to actually teach the class because there are basically two ways of doing…
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Blocks that don’t work that well
I don’t usually run into problems with blocks unless I’m doing something really weird with data types. However, I’ve found that the following blocks are super inconsistent in their behaviour.…
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Game: Guess my number
In this game, the student is prompted to guess a secret number generated randomly by the game. Using chat messages the student attempts a guess at the number and the…
