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

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.

I bought this for my 8 year old grandson. He loves Minecraft and all things computer related. I thought this might help him learn to do something more useful than playing games. It is wonderful! My son and grandson work together on this and he is really learning to code using Java. It is not an easy program to use, but they have wonderul support available. I would recommend this for older children also, my 8 yo is probably the exception in his ability to master the concepts (no, that is not just proud grandma talk - this kid is AMAZING with computers and games). Overall, well worth the money and I plan to buy more of their products.

If you are contemplating on buying this for your young programmers, dont think too much. This course will get them into the mood of programming. My son is a big fan of minecraft and when I saw this course through Amazon local, I knew that he would like this course. Up to this point he has completed all of the course work and he has learned some programming skills along the way. He can manipulate the code to make his weapons stronger and also can change the world design. The teacher on this course walk them through the basics of making a sword to changing the way that the world looks on the game. The only downside is that the course last 1 year, so I might have to buy it again so he can keep programming. Great course for the young programmers in the family, get them started young. This keeps them entertained for hours. If you like to relax and not worry about kids running around the house, this will make your day a lot easier. This course has a help option where they can ask the teachers for help directly.

I cant say enough about this course and about all the Youth Digital courses - they are awesome and I highly recommend them! The instructors are wonderful with the kids and available for help with questions and my son has learned so much about coding and programming through the courses he has taken. Mod Design I is just one of the courses he has taken with YD and we have nothing but positive to say. If you are waffling on buying this for your child, just do it! You wont regret it!

1) The custom environment that the course installs for you is quite error prone. Eclipse will often fail to load and unless you really know what youre doing, you can loose your work and start over.

This is a video based learning program. my son is 11 and said he didnt enjoy the videos too much. He only made it through Lesson 1 and lost interest.

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.

Very entertaining for my 7 year old and his grandpop. They are both learning a lot and having a great time!

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.

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.