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

My husband bought this as a birthday gift for our daughter, who turned 8 this past Saturday and is obsessed with Minecraft. So far, were very impressed. I have to think that some of the reviews that comment on difficulty downloading & installing the various parts are a bit outdated, as we had to only download and install a single 500+MB file which took care of all the dependencies automatically. It seriously couldnt have been any easier.

Great educational program. My 11 year old son loved it. It was engaging and taught him a lot of coding, plus he has retained what hes learned. Great mix of video to teach a concept and practical application. He didnt need to use access to online tutors/instructors, but based on the feedback he received for his final mod he tuned in Im sure the online assistance would have been good. I could tell by the feedback he received, someone from youth digital ran it and used it in minecraft. They provided a very personalized and thoughtful critique.

We bought this program for our 9 yr old who loves Minecraft. We thought it would be a great introduction to Java also and it really is. Hes learned so much about keyboard shortcuts, understanding files and folders, how to read and edit code, as well as a lot of other stuff. I highly recommend your child have a decent knowledge of how to get around on a computer and obviously Minecraft before they start. This is a really fun, engaging way to learn a new skill. My son is constantly laughing at Justins jokes and presentation of material. It helps him learn and retain the knowledge imparted to him. We cant wait for Mod Design 2!

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.

Product is pretty good. The step by step programming instruction is well organized that my son can easily follow it through. The presenter on the videos are too comical for my son too. :)

My kids didnt care for it

My son loved Mod Design 1. It taught him about java and eclipse as well as giving him the knowledge to make mods for minecraft. He still uses that knowledge today making new mods. Highly recommend it.

When the company youth digit owned and produced the product it worked wonderfully and was an awesome homeschooling tool. When youth digital was sold to APEX LEARNING it became part of a curriculum that they offer and the boxed software packaged by youth digital no longer works... DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT AS IT NO LONGER FUNCTIONS AND SHOULD NO LONGER BE SOLD BY ANY COMPANY WITH A CONSCIENCE.

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!

This is not just some kids based how to play with the script in Minecraft. This is a no fooling, full contact learning environment.