Alexander Pruss's Blog

Years ago, for my older kids' coding education, I made a Minecraft mod  that lets you program in Python. Now I made a Scratch extension ...

Our youngest wanted a Minecraft cake for her birthday. We settled on a Minecraft cake block cake using this clever method . (But we froze th...

I wanted to wrap a rectangular texture of, say, the earth around a sphere in Minecraft to make a 3D image (using RaspberryJamMod and Python ...

Over a recent trip, I had fun writing a little Python implementation of the classic falling-block game in Minecraft.

For quite some time, my older daughter has wanted me to make her Great Wolf Lodge Magiquest wand do something at home. So I made a simple I...

Last summer, I taught programming to gifted kids with Python and Minecraft. Here's my Instructable giving a curriculum for a course lik...

My RaspberryJamMod , which enables the Minecraft PI API for Python programming , has been updated to work with Minecraft/Forge 1.10. Still a...

Happy Easter, everyone! Here are Easter eggs in Minecraft generated using my pysanka.py python script (included with Raspberry Jam Mod ). Th...

I just updated RaspberryJamMod , which allows one to run python code in Minecraft (using a variant of the Raspberry PI Minecraft API), to wo...

One of my hobbies is computer science education for children. Over the past year or so, I've been developing Raspberry Jam Mod (require...

I posted an Instructable with a whole bunch of fractals in Minecraft via Python scripts.

I was trying to generate a Mandelbrot set fractal in Minecraft using a python script . But the palette available is very limited, which led ...

I've been sensitized to the fact that there are many children who have no access to a PC but do have access to a smartphone. So in the i...

It's well-known that fractal-type objects can be quite lifelike and easy to generate. I've been scripting Minecraft with Python, in ...

My big kids and I are Deep Space 9 fans. Here's a Deep Space 9 station rendered in Minecraft using our modifications to Martin O'Han...

If anybody is interested, I wrote up an Instructable for python coding for Minecraft using my Raspberry Jam Mod.

I have a special interest in programming education for children, mainly because I have children and because so much of the fun I had as a ch...