There's a whole slew of existing Minecraft modding text and video tutorials, many of them quite good. Let's use this topic to capture those that could be especially useful in setting up a Minecraft modding curriculum, or for giving out to students as reference material or recommended follow-on exercises.
- Bob Frietas' Minecraft Forge tutorials. Bob has put together an excellent set of written tutorials that take readers through modding many of the basic object types using Minecraft Forge. [Edit: Just discovered that he also contains a PPT (click "vew raw") that indicates it may have been used for a session in the Dublin CoderDojo. Val, would love to talk to Bob. See prev. email]
- Vswe's "Forging a Minecraft Mod" summer course. Vswe has invested a great deal of time creating courses and training material not just for Minecraft, but also object-oriented thinking, basic Java programming, etc. (see Course page for list of courses)
These are unique in that they are designed as formal online self-study courses, complete with video lectures, end-of-unit study materials and exercises (e.g.), and an end-of-course project (e.g.) that he will actually grade for you. It's entirely free. If anything, the idea of having additional study materials is something we should consider for all of our series courses.
- How Minecraft (and Forge) Work. This author has filled a gap by creating a set of posts on conceptual topics about Minecraft modding using forge.
- Index of Minecraft Forge tutorials. Index of available tutorials. Varying levels of sophistication.
There's a whole slew of existing Minecraft modding text and video tutorials, many of them quite good. Let's use this topic to capture those that could be especially useful in setting up a Minecraft modding curriculum, or for giving out to students as reference material or recommended follow-on exercises.
These are unique in that they are designed as formal online self-study courses, complete with video lectures, end-of-unit study materials and exercises (e.g.), and an end-of-course project (e.g.) that he will actually grade for you. It's entirely free. If anything, the idea of having additional study materials is something we should consider for all of our series courses.