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

Great program - Justin the teacher is perfect for this. Entertaining and engaging for kids. Does a great job taking it super slow and explaining everything in detail.

This course does not work on Macs--if you are running a Mac, do not buy this. They say in their advertising that it works on Macs, but it doesnt, and they do not provide adequate support to address the issues. Once they figure out that you are on a Mac, they simply stop responding to your Tech Support inquiries. We bought this for my 11 year old son for his main Christmas gift. We also bought a new iMac computer from the Apple Store so we could do the Youth Digital course. Despite working with the Youth Digital Tech Support for nearly two months, the course would not even install correctly enough to do the course. After multiple chats with tech support as well as live screen shares, they said my computer was too unique and they did not have a quick fix. By. It was a stock purchase from Apple -- nothing unique and I had not installed any other software. We also tried the course on our older iMac, which was running the Lion operating system. It didnt work on that one either. It is really disappointing and my son is crushed.

Our 10 year old son LOVES this program. He is engaged and, beyond learning how to code, he is learning to problem-solve on his own. Customer service is absolutely amazing - response time is often less than an hour to resolve any confusion or errors that he encounters and is written so that he can solve the problem without much help from us. It is the best online program we have used. Highly recommend without reservations!

Great presentation and organization of learning modules, and the kids laughed all the way through.

My kids didnt care for it

In order to use this you also have to buy the minecraft pc download for another $30. And then log in your credit card. Not happy!

We had to struggle to register the product as the instructions included did not match the reality. Also downloading the product was hassle, as it has a huge download and fail several times over wireless. ... i had to finally hard wire and download.

I will re-review after my son has had a couple of months experience with this. First impression, though, is not overly positive. This course is for an old (1.6.4) version of Minecraft, and a very old (JRE 1.6) version of Java. This caused hours of confusion and problems on my sons first attempt to start the course. You need to download Eclipse (a heavyweight Java development environment), which is slow, and when he started Eclipse per the video instructions (provided by a happy/chatty guy that my son seems to like but I find insufferable) was greeted with a blizzard of errors.

Bought this for a 10 year old girl who absolutely loves computers and Minecraft. She worked through the lessons in about a week of long days. Shed spend all of her free time on this, so I am glad that I waited until after school was out for the summer.

My son and I are racing through this course right now -- we bought it some time ago, but didnt install it until recently. We just found out their website is being discontinued 2019 Feb 28th. Since the course runs from the website, this means the courses will become inaccessible.