This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site.

This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to programming inside Minecraft that is held in the ‘Learning’ section of the Foundation’s site. This is a fairly short tutorial to get you installing the software, generating messages inside Minecraft and programmatically building with blocks. If you haven’t given Minecraft a go yet, this is the place to start!

Visit this page to get started.

Once you’ve done this tutorial, you should take a look at Craig Richardson’s (@craigargh) website in which he explores more advanced Minecraft concepts.