Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson (STEM Trailblazer Bios)
Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson (STEM Trailblazer Bios)
By Kari Cornell
If you've ever built your own virtual world out of blocks, you've experienced the genius of Markus "Notch" Persson. Long before creating Minecraft, a young Markus was completely fascinated by the programming code in his computer's manual, writing his very first video games by age eight.
In 2009, he channelled his childhood passion into a single weekend design project that would change gaming history forever.
This inspiring biography explores how one programmer's simple idea to unleash the player's imagination turned into one of the most popular computer games on the planet.




























