Microsoft and Code.org have come together to debut Minecraft Designer, a free tutorial for students aged 6 and up that uses the Minecraft environment to teach coding. Minecraft Designer is a free, ...

The Hour of Code is an annual campaign designed to get kids across the globe interested in coding, and this year, Microsoft and Minecraft developer Mojang (which Microsoft acquired in 2014) have ...

Programming languages can be daunting to learn, especially if you're a kid who'd rather be playing games than creating them. Thankfully, ThoughtSTEM has found a way to make coding both accessible and ...

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, that will teach kids the basics of programming using Minecraft. Microsoft bought ...

Microsoft today announced Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition. This new extension will teach kids how to code with the help of an assistant within the building block video game. Code Builder ...

This year's Hour of Code has added a Minecraft-themed activity to encourage kids to try coding. The Hour of Code is now in its third year, and is run by Code.org, a non-profit organization dedicated ...

Microsoft is leveraging Minecraft Education Edition for schools, with a new Code Builder tool that wraps coding in with building. Announced alongside Windows 10 S at the company's MicrosoftEDU event ...

Listen up you little Creepers and Zombies out there. Microsoft wants to teach you how to code using Minecraft as a teacher. On Monday, Microsoft announced a partnership with Code.org that will teach ...

JavaScript is the language of the client and it is becoming the language of the server. Now it seems set to be the language of Minecraft. If you don't know about Minecraft then you have missed out on ...