Adventures in Minecraft®, Second Edition

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About the authors

MARTIN O'HANLON has been designing and programming computer systems for all of his adult life. His passion for programming and helping others to learn led him to create the blog (www.stuffaboutcode.com) where he shares his experiences, skills and ideas. Martin regularly delivers presentations and workshops on programming Minecraft to coders, teachers and young people with the aim of inspiring them to try something new and making programming fun.

DAVID WHALE has spent most of his life writing computer programs for devices you wouldn't imagine have computers inside them. He was bitten by the computer programming bug aged 11 when he was at school, and he still thoroughly enjoys writing software and helping others to learn programming. He works with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation on a shared mission to make computer programming accessible to all, and he also regularly volunteers for The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET) helping in schools, running weekend computing clubs, judging schools competitions and running programming workshops for young people at community events all around the UK. You can follow his adventures from his Twitter page: www.twitter.com/whaleygeek.

Acknowledgements

Many people are involved in producing a book, too many to mention in this small space. We would both like to give our special thanks to the following people:

• The staff at Mojang for designing such a great game and also for their genius and insight in making the game programmable. Without this insight, this book would not have been possible.
• The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the open-source community, without which there wouldn't be a Raspberry Pi or a free Minecraft server, both of which are vital platforms that enabled this book to be written for a wide audience.
• Our testers and young Minecraft experts, Zachary Igielman, Sam Whale, Ben Foden, Ria Parish, Ashley Cheema and Lauren Trussler who tried our programs and provided really useful feedback, without which we would never have known if we were pitching the book correctly to the target age group.
• Sarah Wright, for the truly amazing illustrations throughout this book. They are beautiful pieces of visual artwork, and cleverly and perfectly capture the concepts being presented in each adventure.
• Ben Ramachandra, the young lad at the Christmas 2013 Fire Tech Camp event at Imperial College, London: You were so determined to follow the Python course entirely in Minecraft, which was the moment that caused the idea for this book to spark into existence!
• Last, but not least, we would like to thank Carrie-Anne Philbin, for having the vision and determination to write her first book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, without which the Adventures series of books would not exist—now, see what you've started, Carrie-Anne?!