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CONTENTS IN DETAIL

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

What Are Minecraft Mods?

What Is ComputerCraft?

How to Use This Book

What’s in This Book?

Online Resources

What You Learned

1GETTING STARTED WITH COMPUTERCRAFT

Installing Minecraft, ATLauncher, and ComputerCraft

Buying Minecraft Online

Downloading and Installing ATLauncher

Downloading and Installing ComputerCraft

Running Minecraft

Creating a New World

Minecraft Game Mode Differences

What You Learned

2PROGRAMMING BASICS

Getting Started with Turtles

Crafting a Mining Turtle

Running Programs in the Turtle GUI

Fueling the Turtle

Moving the Turtle

Getting Started with Lua Programming

Running the Lua Shell

Goodbye Lua: Exiting Lua’s Prompt

Letting Lua Do the Math

Order of Operations

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