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<\/a>As a reminder, since it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, I’m using Craig Richardson’s book Learn to Program with Minecraft<\/a><\/em>. Summer distractions had kept me from digging in, so last night I mostly just reviewed the early stuff and today, I headed into Chapter 3: Building Quickly and Traveling Far with Math. It’s been fun experimenting with placing blocks using code. I managed to create two lava flows before I realized I forgot the minus sign in front of the y coordinate for the lava block.<\/p>\nHere’s what I was supposed to do:<\/p>\n
I also figured out how to manipulate the blocks to make what I’m calling a Rainbox rather than bow mostly because that’s the name that was created when I pressed the x instead of the w in saving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yesterday’s\u00a0other challenge was two fold: learn how to take screen shots on the Pi and transferring those photos to my computer.<\/p>\n This site was one stop shopping<\/a> for the screenshots information with nicely detailed but easy to follow directions and helpful links. They mentioned SSH or USB for transferring the photos and I decided to go with SSH.<\/p>\n Trevor Appleton led me through installing and setting up FileZilla<\/a> to take advantage of SSH for transferring the photos.<\/p>\n Having fun learning and then riffing on that learning through the extra challenges. My swimming pool attempts led to a couple waterfalls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday\u00a0was meeting day…a stack of three starting late afternoon and running until probably past my bed time. It’s fine: it happens that way sometimes, especially at the beginning of the school year when all those hats I wear seem to be in the air at the same time. I’m taking them off and putting them … Continue reading What I Did When My Meeting Got Cancelled<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n