Youth Digital Mod Design 1 - Online Course for MAC/PC

So far, awesome. The course gets you going and adding things to Minecraft very quickly. We just finished module 3. Easy to follow, even if you know nothing about software development. They repeat everything, often and slowly explain the code, but after you have already built something. My 10 year old son has a form of autism and problems focusing, but he is doing fine. The course presenter is great, cracks my son up. We had a question about running out of memory (counter-intuitively, you might need to decrease the heap memory allocation in Eclipse->Run->Edit Configurations from 1024 to 512 to avoid out-of-memory errors while running Minecraft). and Youth Digital responded back within the hour. I did not expect to be using Gimp to make our own graphics. its a lot more detailed that I had figured on. Love it so far. Cant imagine the 1500 dollar summer camps are that much better, if they are at all.

I was a bit hesitant at first given how much this costs, but our 8 and 10 year olds love it. One thing that it does is not to focus too much on programming or Java itself but in how to get a mod built. At several points, it also goes through a trouble-shooting exercise to teach how to figure out why something isnt working correctly. This isnt really a general how-to-program course, but it is a fun way to introduce kids to programming by letting them get to the interesting parts while not having to focus on the annoying parts of programming.

We gave this course to my 7yr old for his birthday. I cant believe how well done it is. He fist pumps his way through fun quizzes and troubleshooting adventure maps while learning to program. If this is the future of learning, sign us up for more!

THIS IS A SCAM - DO NOT BUY. THE SITE IS DOWN AND NOTHING WORKS!

My daughter continue to have issues with the software. For now she is emailing the support on a daily basis without success. She is using a Macbook and we are having many problems with integration with the actual game

Mod Design 1 is a fantastic program for mine craft enthusiasts! I recommend this to kids 8-14. My 11 year old was a bit skeptical at first because his Christmas gift was a online class, however, once he got started, he couldnt get enough! I am excited to give this review as STEM teacher-this is a must have for your brainiac! This took mine craft to a whole other level. The program is excellent and easy to follow. The instructors are only an e-mail away and are always great about personalizing their responses. Thank you Youth Digital!;)

This product is absolutely amazing! I couldnt be happier! The online tech support is quick, the videos are entertaining, and the lessons are very well-paced and interesting. Very well thought out!

My 11-year old son got this for Christmas and loves it. My husband watched some of the video over his shoulder and talked about how well done and funny the video is. No drawbacks here. My son is a mod-ing machine now.

Bought this on woot.com (actually owned by Amazon) several months ago for $150. Glad I didnt spend $250. This is supposedly targeted at 8-14 year old kids but my son says its really for 7 year old kids. Hes 14 but since hed done no programming at all, I thought this would be good for him. He watched the first few classes and basically put it down. Finally I got him to agree to watch if I watched with him. I get this is aimed at little kids but teacher (Justin?) says in 20 mins what could easily be said in 3 mins or maybe even less. I understand why he doesnt want to do this even tho hes a big gamer including an expert minecrafter. Once he gets thru the whole course, Ill likely update my review... he says hell definitely do it and it will help him in the long run but its just twooooo loooonnnggg winded.

My son received this program for Christmas and has been enjoying it very much for the past 24 hours. My review is based on tech support. There was an issue getting a program called GIMP to work properly with the Mod program. My son sent an email to tech support on Christmas with a warning from me that it might be a few days before he heard from anyone given that it was a holiday. He had a very quick response and the issue proved to be a quick fix. He followed the instructions in the reply and was up and running again in less than 15 minutes. It was a wonderful surprise to see that the company was so committed to making sure that the program was working for the kids that were using it, and that they were able to explain the solution in a way that an 11 year old could get up and running by himself.