New version of Minecraft: Pi Edition: Stakes and Opportunities to get children excited about computing.

Pending the final release of new version of Minecraft: Pi Edition precisely before the end of 2012, post from liz (Raspberrypi.org) since November 27, 2012, help us to learn more or less about the upcoming Minecraft:Pi Edition in terms of details, and features. 

One of the main goals via this project aims to get children excited about computing.

According to the recent notes, this new version is based on the Pocket Edition of Minecraft, which you may have seen running on mobile phones and tablets, but has one key difference: you can program it. All you have to do is set up a network connection to the running game, and then you can send text commands to control the world. This makes is possible to program in any language which supports network connections, and you can access the game from any computer which is connected to the Pi. One possible setup is to have a Python prompt and the Minecraft window side-by-side on the Pi. The game can be played with no programming at all. Then, basic programming can be used to place large numbers of blocks in particular patterns to speed up the building process.etc.