Minecraft Fan Finds an Opportunity to Program BASIC Code Ingame

You might have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or mods that allow in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? This is an uncommon feat. SethBling developed a BASIC interpreter to allow you to compile and execute simple programs and scripts in Mojang's world-building game. It's easy to use a variety of blocks of commands however it's not perfect. It is not just possible to print text, but also have in-game robots ("turtles") do tasks. INFO Do you need to dig a long tunnel? You can create a digging script, and let the bot handle all the work. INFO

It's not a big deal to say that you won't write complex software for a game that wasn't designed for it. Code is notoriously slow because of Minecraft's 20Hz operation clock (you cannot execute more than 20 commands per second), and it bogs down the more you use it. However, you don't need to spend weeks recreating the interpreter by yourself. SethBling has posted the necessary information, so it's a to install the add-on, and then brushing up on your IF/THEN statements.