Microsoft announced the next effort in a series of educational Minecraft products today: the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a free tutorial co-developed by Code.org that teaches students as ...

Tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) wants to encourage more children to develop an interest in coding. It's pitch? Try an hour-long online coding tutorial developed by the team behind the popular game ...

Seth Bling worked on an in-game BASIC code interpreter in Minecraft. Check out the result of two weeks of his hard work blending video game and coding tool.

Code.org recently launched a Star Wars-themed “Hour of Code” tutorial, and today they’re geeking it up a notch: a brand-new program is based in the world of Minecraft. The tutorial is the ...

Microsoft® Selects Tynker as Coding Solution for Minecraft: Education Edition. Tynker’s visual building block programming language seamlessly integrat ...

Designed for ages 6 and up, the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer teaches students to create their own “Minecraft” experience where they can program the rules. They can make chickens that drop gold, or ...

Perhaps the only online coding community that could compete with Scratch for kids’ attention is Minecraft, which aims to provide kids with a similar sense interest- and peer-based exploration.

Adopting Minecraft Education as a learning tool has not only impacted students; it has also transformed the way teachers think. Educators who were unfamiliar with coding and AI are now exploring these ...

A team of computer scientists has developed a software package that allows users to learn how to program while playing the popular video game.

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling ...