Parent wanting to use MC:EE to teach programming to son
My 7 year old son absolutely loves playing Minecraft on Nintendo Switch at home with his 4 year old sister. They have a fantastic time together building all sorts of weird and wonderful things. I confess that his interest in Minecraft stems from him watching myself play it on my Mac. It's a fantastic game that i've loved dipping in and out of for years.
Now, what I need help with is how to set up MC:EE at home on my Mac so that I can teach my son some programming using an environment that he's already familiar with. I've been programming for over 20 years and would like to pass on some skills.
My son has done a little bit of Scratch in school and i've done some with him at home. I believe Scratch can also be used in conjunction with MC:EE using Code Connection, which is fantastic.
I've downloaded MC:EE, but it looks like you have to have an Office 365 Education account to log in to it. I've contacted his school but they have said that the students only have class accounts and not individual ones.
I can't seem to find any information about how to get this working. Surely I can pay for a license for MC:EE and then log in with my regular account.
Please, please, please can someone help me out?
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Hi Paul,
He will need an Office 365 edu account, its free with his school email: https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education
An alternative approach would be to use the bedrock edition and use the Code Connection companion application.
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Thank you Paul, for asking this question, I am a similar context, two kids, same age, same scratch experience and I am facing the same issue.
@Kyle, in my case the school doesn't use Office 365 edu, should I only move to the second option, is it correct? if yes, I'm bit confused on MC versions... is bedrock different from java edition, that I can download/buy here? I have to use a mix of pc(win10) and mac; and more... can I still use all the different tutorial, lessons available for MC ee if I use bedrock version?
thank you in advance.
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@Kyle, I know this post is older, but my son is home schooled and loves minecraft. I was wondering how we can incorporate this companion into bedrock cause its not letting me do it anywhere i try. Please help.
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Berkley Hofmann Hey! You can download the code connection app here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/code-connection/9ppfpg2fg2qb?activetab=pivot:overviewtab once you have it downloaded simply go into your game settings and press the key your code builder is binded to.
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@Lily, So i tried that, but it will not let me do anything. I need a school email account to log in. I tried the demo version and it still wont let me, ive tried minecraft itself and will not let me.
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