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Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios.Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language, the first public alpha build was released on 17 May 2009.
Jens Peder Bergensten (born 18 May 1979), known professionally as Jeb, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer.He is best known as the lead designer of Minecraft, [1] [2] [3] and is the chief creative officer of Mojang Studios.
Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic point-and-click video game developed and published by Telltale Games, based on Mojang Studios' sandbox video game, Minecraft. The first five episodes were released between October 2015 through March 2016 and an additional three episodes were released as downloadable content (DLC) in mid-2016.
Minicraft was developed by Minecraft creator Markus Persson in 48 hours as a part of the 22nd Ludum Dare competition, which requires game developers that enter the contest to make a game in 48 hours based on a theme that is released just before the time starts. [3]
Minecraft mods are credited for being a gateway for children to pick up coding and programming. [64] Several educational projects have been created to further encourage students to learn coding through Minecraft , including LearnToMod, [ 65 ] ComputerCraftEdu, [ 66 ] and Minecraft: Pi Edition, [ 67 ] all of which are offered free to teachers.
Steve is one of nine default character skins that are available to new players of Minecraft. [16] [17] A skin is the appearance of the player's avatar that represents the player in the game world, which can be changed, altered, or replaced by the player. [18]
An example of a readable book [b]. Each of the nine countries covered by the library, as well as Reporters without Borders, has an individual wing, containing a number of articles, [1] available in English and the original language the article was written in. [2] The texts within the library are contained in in-game book items, which can be opened and placed on stands to be read by multiple ...
By 2014, Code.org had launched computer courses in thirty US school districts to reach about 5% of all the students in US public schools (about two million students), [46] and by 2015, Code.org had trained about 15,000 teachers to teach computer sciences, able to reach about 600,000 new students previously unable to learn computer coding, with ...