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Comment by sohkamyung | Hacker News Reader

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Is it possible to support creating and deploying Minecraft server mods using repl.it?

At one point (2-3 years ago) my son was interested in doing this but the pain of installing Java, an IDE (NetBeans), getting started in Java programming and deploying it on a vanilla Minecraft server was just too much.

Or are there better options now for Minecraft server mod programming?

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Hey, we've looked at Minecraft and I think it's a great game to encourage kids to learn to code. In fact a lot of teachers teach Python and Java on Repl.it so that their students can learn how to tinker with Minecraft.

There are a couple of startups out there that try to help with Minecraft modding. Check out Tynker and I think Code.org has something on Minecraft.

If you have any specific ideas on how we can help with this please shoot me an email amjad@repl.it

Hey, at their ED event last week Microsoft announced a platform specifically designed at teaching kids coding with Minecraft -- seeems right up what you are looking for!

https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2017/05/02/minecraft-code-buil...

If running two installers is a pain maybe programming is a wrong area to be interested in.

I disagree. When you're just starting out all this software you have to install is really discouraging. Plus some people don't own their personal computers and use the computers at school etc so it's much better for them if there was a portable development environment.

> getting started in Java programming

I'm willing to guess that's where things got hard, not installing and running an app. Would you know what to do when NetBeans throws you in front of an empty text editor? Or, when starting a new project, did you know the canonical way of naming things without being shown once?

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