CLARKSVILLE, TN – The most popular of Austin Peay State University’s summer coding camps – “Learning Programming with Minecraft” for middle schoolers – filled up within days of registration opening.
In addition to the massive popularity of the world-building game, the Minecraft camp – offered by the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology – attracted students who wanted more from the game.
“The students in the Minecraft camps will get a free year of Minecraft (education edition) that they can take home with them,” said Dr. James Church, who’s leading the camps with several APSU computer science students. “But the camp is not going to be just playing Minecraft, it’s going to be the basics to programming in Minecraft.”
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Jonathan Snyder, who’s entering seventh grade at Northeast Middle School, said…
