Reddit mentions of Learn to Program with Minecraft: Transform Your World with the Power of Python

Here's a link to the book I recommended. I had the title wrong. It's "Learn to Program With Minecraft"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593276702/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473618415&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=learn+to+program+with+minecraft

It's a really cool concept and should capture your son's attention and build in him a love for programming.

Sometimes I give to my students A Human Resource Machine ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Resource_Machine ), it contains nice set of programming problems. Sadly it becomes hard fast. But it's nice to start. Other game I could advice is Lightbot ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightbot.lightbot ) - tested on 8yo girl, it had good reception. About programming itself there are books - Learn Program in Minecraft ( https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Minecraft-Transform-Python/dp/1593276702# ) or Build Computer Games in Python ( https://books.google.pl/books/about/Invent_Your_Own_Computer_Games_with_Pyth.html?id=ZPneDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y ).

Sorry for bad formatting, I'll correct that as soon I'll go home.

Good error messages and bulletproof tool experience will be a priority for teaching unless you wanna be the on-call guy. I've tutored 1:1 for kids and you want them to feel in control right away, making something real that they can show mom ("I made this HTML file with cats in it!") and stay motivated. Something like this <https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Minecraft-Transform-Python/dp/1593276702/> where I can get them set up and then they can teleport their avatar around immediately (nb I haven't used this book before)

This is the book we got for scratch and the kids seem to like it:
Coding Games in Scratch
And this is the Python book we have:
Learn to Program w Mincraft

I bought this book for my 12 year old and I to do together, because I too would like to learn Python and I thought it would be an enjoyable shared experience.

So far he has shown no interest, but I think it will come eventually. :-)

As a result, I have also not gone through the book in detail, but flipping through it, it looks like just what I hoped it would be.

There is a learn Python with Minecraft book that you can use with a very affordable Raspberry Pi computer.

Between the book and the Pi, you would be down ~$50 maybe...

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Minecraft-Transform-Python/dp/1593276702

There's a book that uses MC to teach kids Python:
Learn to Program with Minecraft https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1593276702/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_yi8wzb5EWA3N4

Just felt like throwing that in here