{"id":9328,"date":"2014-04-15T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2014-04-15T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:52:29","slug":"foundation-focus-programming-in-minecraft-with-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9328","title":{"rendered":"Foundation focus: Programming in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d3bgui9r1m2641.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cropped-Pi-Edition-header1.jpg?resize=560%2C161\" width=\"560\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the first in what I suspect will be a\u00a0<em>long<\/em> series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site.<\/p>\n<p>This time, I wanted to point people at the <strong>introduction to programming inside Minecraft<\/strong> that is held in the &#8216;Learning&#8217; section of the Foundation&#8217;s site. This is a fairly short tutorial to get you installing the software, generating messages inside Minecraft and programmatically building with blocks. If you haven&#8217;t given Minecraft a go yet, this is the place to start!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/learning\/minecraft-pi\/\">Visit this page to get started<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve done this tutorial, you should take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/arghbox.wordpress.com\/\">Craig Richardson&#8217;s (@craigargh) website in which he explores more advanced Minecraft concepts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first in what I suspect will be a\u00a0long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. 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