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Building a Minecraft City: Build Like a Pro!
The coolest kid-friendly Minecraft projects If you have a Minecraft fanatic on your hands, you're about to be the most popular adult on the "block." Offering young Minecraft enthusiasts the ultimate sandbox experience, Building a Minecraft City gives kids aged 7 – 11 an outlet to enhance their love of the game and take their creative play to new heights. Brought to you by the trusted For Dummies brand, this kid-focused book offers step-by-step instructions and simple explanations for completing projects that will teach your child invaluable new skills―all while having a ton of fun! They'll gain confidence as they design and build truly impressive Minecraft structures, and you'll delight in watching them develop and refine their problem-solving skills as they work on their own. It's a win-win! Screen time can be as educational as it is fun, and this book shows your child how to approach their favorite game from a new angle to think―and do―outside the box.
128 pages, Paperback
Published August 29, 2016
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March 2, 2017
As a gamer I have never really understood the appeal of Minecraft, but then I was never a LEGO fan either as a child. This block building game has sparked the imagination of millions of children, so much so that it can sustain books about it. 'Building a Minecraft City' is a Dummies Junior book that explores some of the basics of the game and helps you to develop your own city. Like the adult versions of the books, this outing suffers a little from the mere format of being on paper. Getting across even the relatively simple 'programming' of Minecraft on paper is not that easy and the limited size of the pages does have an effect. The information that Dr Sarah Guthals is telling you is good, just that it is pretty limited.
This book also suffers from the market it finds itself in. Not only are there great resources on the internet, but other books that do the same thing, but better. The Mojang books in particular are excellent and have full colour page pull out showing you exactly what to do. Comparing Dummies Junior to those books lets you see how limited the Dummies collection is. There is also an issue with who the target audience is. The various projects in this book are a little uninspiring so advanced players will not find anything new here. Therefore, it is the beginner and the novice and although Guthals does a good job of covering the basics, most players will find themselves best learning by doing.
For a Minecraft fanatic, I can imagine that any book on the subject would bring some joy, but in this case they will probably have achieved everything inside already. The age of the coding book is drawing to an end, but those that survive will be ones that cover basic stuff that you can quickly glance at. Here you get some of the basics, but nothing that will improve on just getting on with playing the game.
This book also suffers from the market it finds itself in. Not only are there great resources on the internet, but other books that do the same thing, but better. The Mojang books in particular are excellent and have full colour page pull out showing you exactly what to do. Comparing Dummies Junior to those books lets you see how limited the Dummies collection is. There is also an issue with who the target audience is. The various projects in this book are a little uninspiring so advanced players will not find anything new here. Therefore, it is the beginner and the novice and although Guthals does a good job of covering the basics, most players will find themselves best learning by doing.
For a Minecraft fanatic, I can imagine that any book on the subject would bring some joy, but in this case they will probably have achieved everything inside already. The age of the coding book is drawing to an end, but those that survive will be ones that cover basic stuff that you can quickly glance at. Here you get some of the basics, but nothing that will improve on just getting on with playing the game.
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