Son is having some fun with LearnToMod - a website service that runs a minecraft server for you, and then translates some Blockly code into a mod that runs on that server.
The basics are good. The âVox-Lâ simulator is buggy as heck and hasnât worked in 20 minutes, but he works around the grey bar that blocks him from the middle of the screen. The âbadgesâ are nit-picky with capitalization that doesnât matter -- e.g. he just wasted a few minutes because he typed in âsummon pigâ instead of âsummon Pigâ. /rollseyes.
If you arenât a coder yourself, these things would be barriers to you helping your child out, but give it a try I guess. Oh, get your access code before you tell the kid about it though as that bugged out too and I had to ask for it directly and that took 45minutes.Â
From the same folks that did the CodeSpell game - if I had noticed that first, I wouldnât have gone ahead with it (due to the bugs in that game that never got responded to on twitter) but heâs enjoying himself for now.