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    The Homeschool Buyers' Co-op has Youth Digital's Minecraft Mod Design course on sale ($150 for one year of access to about 30 hours' instruction, usually $250) until 4/30. This course introduces Java programming.

    So far (4 lessons in) we are impressed by the quality of the instruction and the availability of quick individual help. Thumbs up.

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    There is software to download and you could do some editing of images offline, but the bulk of the work is done online (tutorials you watch, stopping to do steps as you go).

    DS is still loving this. The teachers are very responsive.

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    My daughter did the class and really enjoyed it. She is doing App Design now.

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    DD did this class and loved it, too.

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    My DD will be 8 at the end of the month. She LOVEs Minecraft and learns quickly. However, none of us have ANY programming experience at all. Do you think this would be too complicated for me to do with her... I say it that way because she is already better at technology than I am, but would probably still need help;-)?

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    The YDS courses come with online support, so I wouldn't worry too much about lack of programming skills. The support people have always been very responsive and patient whenever my son has gotten stuck on something. DS has independently completed a number of these courses over the years and enjoyed all of them.

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    YDS also offers excellent summer camps. I see they're in more cities now than ever.

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    Thank you both! Just showed the videos to DD and I think we are going to give it a try!

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    All help can come from the teachers. They do a really nice job of showing exactly what to do in the videos, including finding errors and fixing them-- but they expect that you will email them.

    (This course is actually a GREAT exercise in writing clearly, because describing a problem to the teacher is a nice goal-oriented writing exercise!)

    DS has had no help from parents on this; doing it himself and getting results. I could not be more pleased.

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    Awesome information! Thanks for sharing this! She is very, very excited!!!

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