21 Jun
2015
21 Jun
'15
7:49 a.m.
On 6/20/2015 8:06 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
I purchased a Raspberry Pi recently and was surprised to find a version
of Minecraft installed, I don't know anything about it but my son did.
It sort of 'hooked' him into the Pi.
Oh, and it also had Mathematica on it, a stripped down version. I think
that was to get me 'hooked', I've never been able to afford Mathematica
and am interested in it.
Doug
Right. Get
'em hooked on Minecraft, and then it'll be easier to push them into harder drugs
like VHDL later! :)
There is a good grain of truth to that. In complex Minecraft
command
block systems, a programmer has to think about many, many tasks,
running in parallel, each triggered by real time events connected with
the redstone logic network. That starts to sound like Verilog.
In thinking further - I might think that learning to do complex
Minecraft command block systems is probably *better* for training
future engineers that giving them a bunch of TTL and a protoboard.
--
Will