Who is using ScriptCraft and how?

[Captain Starbuck]

I'm trying to get a feel for who is using this great tool and how it's being used. Frankly, after my initial introduction and expression of intent to help with the project, I'm now doubting that there are enough people using it to justify too much time. I have made a number of enquiries to Walter and have received no response at all. Either I offended him, he's ill, or pre-occupied with life. But it seems he's MIA right now, which is the first sign of the death for most FOSS. But if there are enough people using ScriptCraft, I'll continue to do what I can to help in terms of code enhancements, documentation, assistance in discussion groups, and otherwise propping-up this plugin to make it easier to use in classrooms and for personal use.

To get a more clear picture of the user base, I'm asking anyone using ScriptCraft to please post a Single response here to introduce yourself. Please tell us if you're a teacher or student, gamer/hobbyist,etc. If you are a part of a group, it would help to know how many gamers/students you might have in your group (or how frequently you might have a class of some number of students, etc). Your city/country would help too to see how far this plugin reaches geographically - and I would use that as a guide to try to get other areas interested. I'm not looking for a full bio or anything, ultimately just some kind of head count so I can personally determine if I'm just going to try using this for my own purposes or if I'm going to continue trying to contribute to a community which may or may not exist.

If you would like to start a discussion on this topic, PLEASE use a different thread. I don't want this thread to get cluttered with discussion. I'd really like it to be purely a place where we can get a snapshot of the ScriptCraft userbase as it is now. This can help to get metrics later - as any teacher would understand.

Thanks.
--Starbuck

[Mike Stay]

I'm using it to teach my son how to program.

[Randy Friend]

I haven't used much more than the basics, but I use ScriptCraft in STEM talks for 3rd graders, 5 groups of about 30 students each, at the school where my wife works.  This years talk will mostly be with command blocks to show the progression of taking and idea, implementing it and continue to improve it.

I will have an entryway, then add a door, add a lever so you can 'see' it opens, change it to a button for appearances, change it to a pressure plate, change it to a command block that opens for any entity, one that opens for only players and finally one that opens for a specific player.

Next year, I could have a module in ScriptCraft that does this and have a command block simply call the module.  I am also looking at creating a module to read in MineCraft schematic files for building structures.

Randy Friend,

Fort Smith, Ar USA

[Mircea Patrascu]

I learned JavaScript using ScriptCraft and now I use it to teach kids to code and to create my own plugins.  I also try to combine it with Scratch to make it more accessible to younger kids.

I'm from Bucharest, Romania.

[Umut Özdemir]

I just learned JavaScript with a book and I'm practicing with ScriptCraft. And creating plugins is not boring. You write code, it affects the game. I don't know JavaScript enough and I'm trying to improve it. 

[Gene Liang]

Like Mike, the original intention to use it was to introduce my son concept of computer programming.
Until recently I hold a small class with 8 children , ranges from 8 through 11.
Thanks to several naughty boys on the class, who brings little chaos to the class, I’m writing some teacher only functions to mitigate this kind of situation.
Such as :
freeze players,
spread players in certain distance and freeze(concentrate on typing codes)
restore health and food(player can cause less havoc in survival mode)
revoke certain player's ability on executing /js command
etc.

In my opinion, Scriptcraft is far better than ComputerCraft, young people can start with one line of code in command prompt, and gradually move forward on coding a full blown mod. I really don't want it to die-out in the future.

Gene, Taipei, Taiwan

[Jonathan Perret]

We are running a public ScriptCraft-enabled server at gnancraft.net, which we enhanced with a web-based code editor (originally based on scedit) so that players can edit their own code at code.gnancraft.net. We use it for various activities with kids. We also host a few private instances for a partner company that does week-long "Minecraft coding" workshops for kids.

Regards,

Jonathan

[Robert Storlind]

Hi all,

At CoderDojo Lund, we have been using ScriptCraft/Minecraft to and fro, totally dependent on the number of kids interested in modding Minecraft and willing to learn JavaScript.

When we started out in late 2012 there was a big interest among the kids but it's definitely been waning.

All our tutorials (in Swedish) may be found at http://lund.coderdojo.se/2014/12/modda-med-scriptcraft-steg-for-steg.html

Looking back, I can't help feeling sad that never was an official modding platform for Minecraft.

Best regards,

Robert

[Knee Snap]

I run a middle-sized Minecraft server that heavily relies on ScriptCraft (We use it because it allows easily writing code at the same time on a remote server, particularly useful because we use chromebooks, and our setup works better than using git), and we're working on another PVP minigame server that uses ScriptCraft.

Also, I plan to give a demonstration at CoderDojo (Likely as an example of moving forward from scratch to a language where you type everything like JS that they'll enjoy as much as Scratch.) using ScriptCraft.

[Charles Hewgley]

Worked through Walter's book using CanaryMod; working to improve my own programming skills and inspire my daughters to give it a try.

[George Boyce]

I am comparing scriptcraft with code connection of Microsoft’s Education Edition, which also works with window 10 bedrock edition. I’m just used MCEE in our summer camps at the Greenbelt MakerSpace, but will switch to straight up bedrock edition for the rest of the summer. I want to be active in developing scriptcraft; I have no desire to be tied down by Microsoft.

But my big plan is to develop and use scriptcraft as a core technology for my next business venture.