Had anybody tried to boot camp Windows 10 on Mac mini (late 2012)?

I know the support site clearly did not list windows 10. I wonder if any front runner or hobbyist had ever tried it. I am new to mac and need to use the mac to practice X code. I don't have the experience to experiment this boot camp (on windows 10) and also am in fear of messing up my mac mini if I do so.
Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5634

You can also do like I did on my MBP 13 inch from mid 2012, when I removed the Super Drive and put in a SSD and kept the HDD it came with it wouldn't install  any Windows when I had two separate drives, the SSD and the HDD. So what I did was doing my own Fusion Drive with them, and after that it went smoothly to install Windows 8.1 using the Bootcamp app that is on your Mac. It is not recommended to use Disk utility to partition for Bootcamp, when having a Fusion Drive.

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