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

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

My 11 and 12 year-old homeschooled boys love this... Theyre having a lot of fun with it and it doesnt seem like its one of our subjects, which of course, it is. They are both trying to finish quickly because they both want to move on to the next class. Completely kid and user-friendly, with an approachable format; well worth the money.

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.

The kid loves it, customer service is outstanding

My son loves this course. Hes made significant and steady progress in learning Java, and by extension, fundamental programming concepts.

Excellent. The instructing is done so well for the 8-14 year old they have no idea that they are actually learning or taking a class. My 11 year old jumped right in, installed the software himself and looks forward to going to the next lesson each day. Terrific product!

Youth Digital is user friendly and has effective teaching techniques and excellent customer service. It was a positive self esteem promoting experience that resulted in a real Mod. And as the parent I witnessed my 9 year old childs level of satisfaction and personal pride reach new levels. Thank you Youth Digital. We have just started our second course.

Do NOT purchase this software. It no longer works. Company is out o business. The company sold out and changed their terms of service and Apex Learning will not honor any purchases. Previous purchasers are screwed.

I unschool my 8 year old, which means we learn what hes interested in as deeply as he wants to learn it. He asked to learn how to mod Minecraft, so we bought the Youth Digital Mod Design 1 course. We even learned something installing it (Java can be installed in both 32 bit an 64 bit on the same machine and to mod, youll need 64 bit installed). Within an hour of starting the course, he had installed the necessary tools by himself and had created his own sword in Gimp, modified code in Eclipse and was able to use his sword in Minecraft. He didnt stop talking about it for days.