Walter Higgins - A Beginners Guide to Writing Minecraft Plugins in JavaScript

Walter Higgins

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO WRITING MINECRAFT PLUGINS IN JAVASCRIPT

Walter Higgins

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Copyright 2015 by Walter Higgins

Editor: Kim Wimpsett
Production editor: Rebecca Chapman-Winter
Compositor: Danielle Foster
Indexer: Valerie Haynes Perry
Cover design: Mimi Heft
Interior design: Mimi Heft

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ISBN-13: 978-0-133-93014-6
ISBN-10: 0-133-93014-9

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For my family.

Id like to thankin no particular orderthe many contributors to ScriptCraft (the software used in this book); the teachers and volunteers who have used and improved ScriptCraft; my editors, Cliff Colby and Kim Wimpsett; and the production editor and proofreader for their diligence and enormous help in writing this book. This book took a big chunk of time to write, and I must thank my wife Ursula and kids, Kate and Sean, for their patience, love, and support. Id also like to thank my dad, Paul Higgins, for instilling in me a love of books.

This book would not be possible without the work of the hundreds of open source programmers who developed or contributed to the open source Bukkit and CanaryMod projects. These projects are the lifeblood of Minecraft and the Minecraft modding community. Thanks to Jason Jones ( @darkdiplomat ) for heroic work maintaining CanaryMod, Michael Madden for creating great ScriptCraft resources for CoderDojo, Athijegannathan Sundararajan for patiently answering all my questions about Nashorn, Chris Cacciatore for his fun ScriptCraft contributions, and Jon Ippolito for his forum contributions.

Walter Higgins has more than 20 years experience in software development working at Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and IBM. When not programming, he enjoys tinkering with new technology, reading, and running. He lives in Cork, Ireland.