Minecraft Education Edition: Unit 5 - Conditionals (Coding With Minecraft)

Students will explore the concept of conditionals.

An important part of programming used to tell the computer when to perform a certain task.

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

  • Describe the importance of conditionals in coding.
  • Create IF THEN and IF THEN ELSE conditional statements.
  • Code with a variety of conditional blocks to automate their agent to find and collect important resources.
  • Evaluate code to identify problems like infinite loops and debug the code with conditionals.
  • Add a Say block inside if then blocks to help debug problem code.
  • Work collaboratively to design an original creative project to apply their coding skills in new ways

Please review the Assessment Guide for additional details.

 

 

 

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