Computing with Minecraft 1: The Agency

1. Computing with Minecraft 1: The Agency

2. Lesson A: Code a conversation with your Agent

3. To play Minecraft: Education Edition Block programming in Microsoft MakeCode To change your Minecraft world through coding What we’ll learn

4. What is Minecraft? • A game about: • Placing blocks • Building anything you can imagine • Going on grand expeditions • Let’s explore!

5. Your turn to play Use keyboard and mouse controls Look and move around Play with your inventory Build and mine

6. Let’s discuss • How do you use your mouse so your player can look around? • What are two keyboard controls to move your player? • Do you like using mouse or keyboard controls better? • What’s one thing you discovered while playing?

7. Let’s talk coding Code or a computer program gives instructions to a computer to do something. A computer can be a laptop, tablet, smart phone, TV, robot, and more. If you were going to code a computer to make a sandwich, you’d break down the task into specific steps in a specific order, which is an algorithm.

8. A coding mindset • Learning something new can be hard • Be curious if you get frustrated • Be persistent and keep trying • After you try to figure it out, ask others for help • Learn from mistakes

9. Coding with Microsoft Makecode Part of the Code Connection app Code in blocks or JavaScript Let’s try it out!

10. Coding with Chat commands The drawer has coding blocks that work in direct response to your actions An runs code when you type the command in the chat field of Minecraft PLAYER on chat command

11. Let’s discuss • How do you open the chat field? • How do you close the chat field? • What’s an ? • How do you get to the coding Workspace? on chat command

12. Lesson A Let’s review What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have?

13. Next time • Meet your Agent

14. Lesson B: Code to teleport your Agent

15. To code your Agent to come to you What We’ll learn

16. Let’s Meet Your agent It’s a Non-Player Character (NPC) assistant in the game to help you do things, like build, farm, and much more. It appears when you teleport it to your player. The drawer has coding blocks relating to it. AGENT

17. Let’s discuss • What are the four main keyboard controls for moving your player around? • What does it mean if a block in the coding Workspace is opaque?

18. Lesson BLet’s review What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have?

19. Next time • Code with other blocks in the drawer AGENT

20. Lesson C :Code your Agent to rotate

21. What we’ll learn To code the Agent to turn on the spot

22. Code your agent to turn right or left • Helps your Agent perform tasks • involving movement, like chopping • down trees or building a house

23. What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have? Lesson C Let’s review

24. Next time • Code your Agent to move around in the game

25. Lesson D :Code your Agent to move

26. What we’ll learn To teach your Agent to move around

27. Let’s code More ways to move your Agent in different directions

28. What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have? Lesson D What we learned today

29. Next time • Code your Agent to destroy stuff

30. Lesson E: Code Your Agent to destroy and collect

31. What we’ll learn To code your Agent to chop down a tree and collect the wood

32. Chopping down trees Combining what we’ve already learned with new commands

33. Lesson E Let’s review What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have?

34. Next time • Give your Agent supplies to do stuff

35. Lesson F: Explore your Agent’s inventory

36. To open your Agent’s inventory To give your Agent supplies What We’ll learn

37. Let’s play with inventory • Two ways: • Tap your Agent and hold with touchscreen • Point the crosshair at your Agent and right click the mouse

38. Let’s discuss • How do you open your player’s inventory? • How do you open your Agent’s inventory?

39. Lesson FLet’s review What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have?

40. Next time • Build a bridge with code

41. Lesson G :Code your Agent to build

42. What we’ll learn To teach your Agent to build a bridge

43. Building with your agent • Use everything we’ve learned, • plus new coding blocks

44. What did you learn today that you didn’t know before? What was most challenging? What questions do you have? Lesson G Let’s review

45. Next time • Code your Agent to build a city with roads, • buildings, and houses

46. Craft a conversation between multiple parties. Imagine different Non-Player Characters and develop a story around those characters. Code a conversation with them. Extension Activity 1

47. Your Agent will reappear in the same place you leave it when you log out. Code a base for your Agent to go to whenever you finish. Extension Activity 2

48. Build a hedge maze and code your Agent to solve it. Get a classmate to build a maze for you and have your Agent solve the maze using code. Race to see who can code fastest. Add objects to collect, doors to open, bridges to build, or other challenges. Extension Activity 3

49. Redesign the orientation halls in The Agency. Imagine you are the leader of The Agency and you want new recruits to train their Agent in a new way. Design the space you start in to complement your ideas, then code your way around your own designs. Extension Activity 4