{"id":11416,"date":"2014-11-12T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2014-11-12T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:04:08","slug":"adventures-in-minecraft-book-for-raspberry-pi-owners-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11416","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Minecraft book for Raspberry Pi owners launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.wiley.com\/product_data\/coverImage300\/1X\/11189469\/111894691X.jpg?resize=300%2C377\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaboutcode.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin O&#8217;Hanlon<\/a> has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whaleygeek\" target=\"_blank\">David Whale<\/a>, called <strong>Adventures in Minecraft<\/strong>. Taking inspiration from the style and content of Carrie Anne Philbin&#8217;s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, this book teaches programming concept using the programmable Minecraft API. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffaboutcode.com\/2014\/11\/adventures-in-minecraft.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more about the book on Martin&#8217;s blog here<\/a> and you can purchase it from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-111894691X.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wiley<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Amazon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/111894691X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=111894691X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=stuabocod-21\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/111894691X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=111894691X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=stuabocod-20&amp;linkId=V56BNBRN5NXWF3TG\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I will be receiving my review copy in the next few days from Wiley and will bring you my opinion soon, probably over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin O&#8217;Hanlon has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with David Whale, called Adventures in Minecraft. Taking inspiration from the style and content of Carrie Anne Philbin&#8217;s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, this book&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11416\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-rpi-shopping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adventures in Minecraft book for Raspberry Pi owners launched - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11416\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adventures in Minecraft book for Raspberry Pi owners launched - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martin O&#8217;Hanlon has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with David Whale, called Adventures in Minecraft. 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