Jens Bergensten Jens Bergensten Jens "Jeb" Bergensten is a Swedish video game designer. Since December 2010, he has worked for the video game developer Mojang as a programmer and game designer. He became the lead designer and lead developer of the indie sandbox game "Minecraft", after Markus "Notch" Persson stepped down from his position in December 2011. He is known by his in-game name "jeb_". Bergensten started programming his first games at age 11 using BASIC and Turbo Pascal. By age 21, he was a mapper and modder for the first-person shooter "Quake III Arena". Later he worked as a C++ and
Minecraft mods Microsoft announced a new tool, "Minecraft: Education Edition", which would be designed specifically for classroom use and which would continue on the legacy of "MinecraftEdu" to teach a wide variety of subjects using Minecraft. In "The Parent's Guidebook to Minecraft", author Cori Dusmann denotes that homeschooling and "Minecraft" make for an interesting match, as creating simple mods can be an "illustration of scientific principles," to which homeschooling providers are receptive. The idea of introducing Minecraft into school curriculums was resisted by Tom Bennett, who serves as an adviser to the British government. According to Bennett, Minecraft was a gimmick, and