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Hacking Minecraft

on YouTube 43m
Talkat The Conference 2016 · 2016-08-16..08-17· [creative-coding]

speaker

name:Clive Thompson
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/Qe1pwU4D3ZY
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that Minecraft produces a generation fluent in computational design by giving kids an open system to tinker with: they master redstone logic gates to build piston doors and multi-layer mechanisms, a 16‑year‑old’s YouTube contraptions win college attention, and players run server-run worlds with bans, plugins and written constitutions. Game crashes teach debugging resilience, text commands teach object syntax, and the client runs on cheap phones and laptops so the work scales widely rather than staying elite.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 8:41Logic statements!
  3. 11:39Command-line syntax
  4. 15:09Minecraft is buggy
  5. 18:40Griefing and trolling
  6. 20:49Elinor Ostrom's kids

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