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Minecraft Pi Book

Craig Richardson June 13, 2013

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Contents

1 Introduction

1

1.1 Using this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.2 Standards Used in this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2 Getting Started

5

2.1 Programming with Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.1.1 The Minecraft Pi API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.1.2 Writing and Running Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3 Python Syntax

11

3.1 Minecraft Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.1.1 Teleport the Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.1.2 Teleport the Player Precisely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.1.3 Teleportation Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.1.4 Stop Smashing Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.2 Variables and Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.2.1 Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.2.2 Floats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.2.3 Booleans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3.2.4 Changing Values of Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.3 Whitespace and Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.3.1 Statements and Line Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.3.2 Indentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.4 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.4.1 Single Line Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.4.2 Multi-line Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4 Maths Operations

29

4.1 Minecraft Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.1.1 Stacking Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.1.2 Super Jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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