Gadgetory

the Minecraft hour of code tutorials on code org have passed over 50 million play sessions with students and educators around the world so it makes sense that one of the top requests that my team hears is a growing urgency from educators and from school leaders to inject technology into their curriculum specifically computer science and coding so that's why today I'm proud to announce code builder for minecraft education edition code builder is a new minecraft extension that lets players build move around and create in Minecraft by writing code let me show you how it works you're going to write code today to search for water on Mars let's start with the Mars exploration world from Simon's class we're going to enter right into the world and you can see the habitats they built and their interpretation of a Martian landscape once we go inside minecraft you can start code builder just by typing slash code with that you can connect a popular learn to code packages like tinker and scratch X from MIT or you can even add your own service today you're going to use tinker which has custom blocks and commands that are connected to Minecraft now back in minecraft you're going to see your agent or sidekick appears to execute the code that you write students really love the agent it's a great way for them to get started make that experience even more personal in tinker you drag-and-drop blocks of code to create a tunnel program that moves the agent and digs down to discover what's beneath the surface in this example we're going to use the agent to dig a tunnel outside so that we're safe from the elements on Mars but minecraft players out there can imagine dozens of uses for programming the agent like mining all night or building a lip back to your farm while you work on your house so here the agents gone to work running code digging down and identifying the resources that are underground if you're more experienced it's more experienced you can even switch from blocks to JavaScript and run code without the agent to go even faster using code builder students will be able to create some really cool stuff and like my own experience with Super Mario Brothers they'll be learning as they play