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TeachCraft-Challenges
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teachthenet / TeachCraft-Challenges

TeachCraft-Challenges

Learn programming in python by giving yourself superpowers in a minecraft world!

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Learn programming in python by giving yourself superpowers in a minecraft world!

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-14 12:34:21 UTC to 2016-06-29 20:52:51 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 142016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 22016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 27

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 142016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 282016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 42016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 112016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 182016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 252016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC211
May 22016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC000
May 92016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC000
May 162016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC000
May 232016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC000
May 302016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 62016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 132016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 202016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 272016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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emeth·Mar 27, 2016Submission

Show HN: Pycraft – learn Python with Minecraft

https://github.com/teachthenet/pycraft This project is aimed at 6-12th graders, though all may find it fun. It's goals are two-fold: 1) Teach the basics of programming, of reading code, editing code, writing code from scratch, and learning how to google things. 2) Give kids something they can use as a baseline to heavily modify based on their own ideas - they can start with the spell frameworks in lessons 7 and 8 and give themselves superpowers, or go in the direction of lessons 5, 6 and 9 and focus on automating complex architecture! Solutions can be see in the branch "solutions", and a person can run their own server from the "server" branch. The Master branch is the client, and you can connect to my server from it (instructions in the readme). Looking for any feedback, particularly around the lessons themselves and any ideas for additi
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