Minecraft and Julia : A new way to build stuff and learn how to program

The Minecraft API allows us to communicate with the Minecraft world to do simple things like placing blocks and teleporting players. This is functionality is enough to do big and beautiful projects in no time. A talk on building using Julia and some fun stuff like playing “Snake” using a Joystick connected to the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins inside the Minecraft world. This package is a great way to introduce kids to Julia and computer programming in general. A lot of functionality is being worked on right now. This includes a dozen building tools accompanied with guides. The work will be completed well before JuliaCon.

• Show how a skyscraper building 200 blocks tall is built within 5 minutes
• Show the same for pyramids, spheres, .etc
• Show some Mathematical objects like Fractals, Klien Bottle generated inside the Minecraft world
• Show some interactive games like Snake, Minesweeper in 3-D

Speaker's bio

I am a Google Summer of Code Student working on the PiCraft.jl package for Julia. Currently a 2nd year student studying Computer Science at “The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore”.