Coding with Minecraft: Build Taller, Farm Faster, Mine Deeper, and Automate the Boring Stuff
To Daniel Ratcliffe the ComputerCraft creator and Seymour Papert the turtle creator
About the Author Al Sweigart is a professional software developer who teaches pro gramming to kids and adults Sweigart has written several bestselling programming books for beginners including Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python and Cracking Codes with Python all from No Starch Press His books are freely available under a Creative Commons license at https inventwithpython com About the Technical reviewer Daniel Ratcliffe is a game developer from Cambridge England He created the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft in 2011 and has been making games since 2002 You can read about his latest projects on Twitter DanTwoHundred His other interests include Star Trek cycling and cats
ACknowleDgMenTS It’s misleading to have just my name on the cover This book wouldn’t exist without the efforts of many people I’d like to thank my publisher Bill Pollock my developmental editors Jan Cash and Annie Choi my production editor Laurel Chun my technical reviewer Daniel Ratcliffe my copyeditor Anne Marie Walker and all of the staff at No Starch Press I’d also like to thank Josh Ellingson for a great cover illustration Thanks to Michelle and Doug Rapp for introducing me to Minecraft and punching trees
