On 19 June 2015 at 22:38, William Donzelli <wdonze...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then > move to command blocks. > I'm not ashamed to admit I (24 y/o) play Minecraft now and again (with friends on their own private servers). I'd suggest anyone serious about trying to get someone "into" logic and programming with Minecraft use a good tech modpack like the Direwolf20 modpack (part of the Feed the Beast launcher). It has Immibis' RedLogic, which is redstone wiring and logic gates; as well as dan200's ComputerCraft which gives you a Lua programmable computer (and peripherals) that can do all sorts of neat things.
Eloraam's RedPower 2 had a *very* nice 6502 system (yes, really) that ran FORTH (though you could have your own asm in game as well, but you'd need to find a way to import it); it also is the "original" redstone wires and logic gates mod. But it stopped being worked on back in 2012. Which is really too bad as the 6502 with Forth was very neat (it was also graphically styled after a PDP-8/e). Anyway, sorry for the Minecraft "crap" if anyone here doesn't like it, just wanted to pitch in my two cents. Cheers, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
