![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this is not the case (yet, anyway). Since the book had already been out for a few weeks, this note gave me hope that perhaps some instructions for setting up all the tools on Ubuntu might’ve already been added. It seems reasonable, then, that if you can get this stuff working on the Raspberry Pi, then a much more powerful laptop running Ubuntu should be great!Įven more encouraging, there’s a nifty footnote at the bottom of of the Learn to Program With Minecraft book which reads:įor information on other platforms and updates to these instructions, visit In other words: Raspbian & Ubuntu are cousins. No problem! The Raspberry Pi runs a special distribution of Linux called “Raspbian,” which is a version of Debian Linux, which is the upstream version of Linux that Ubuntu is based on. (See the last page for detailed requirements.) The code in this book will run on Windows 7 or later, OS X 10.10 or later, or the Raspberry Pi. After the Amazon box arrived, I spotted this note on the back cover of the book: You wouldn’t think this would be a problem: Minecraft is built in Java, which runs without a problem on Ubuntu (and many other platforms). The only problem? We each use the Ubuntu distribution of Linux instead of Windows or Mac OSX. Python is a programming language that I’ve long wanted to get acquainted with, and since she loves Minecraft so much, I felt like this book would be an ideal way for my daughter to also gain some exposure to it. ![]() ![]() Recently, I picked up a copy of Learn to Program with Minecraft®: Transform Your World with the Power of Python for my daughter and I to have a fun project to work on together. ![]()
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