Microsoft today announced that a new Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorial, Hero’s Journey, has been released as part of its ongoing support for Hour of Code. This is the third consecutive year that ...

Microsoft today unveiled Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition, a new tool that will help kids learn how to code by manipulating the blocky open world of Minecraft. Code Builder is a tool in ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...

Melissa Wrenchey has spent over 10 years in the classroom as an educator. She is currently a computer science and engineering teacher at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, Wash., as well as teacher ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At its education event earlier in May, Microsoft unveiled its latest effort to help kids learn ...

On Nov. 1, Microsoft will be releasing its newest Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, which, according to a recent announcement, could be "possibly the most adventurous tutorial yet." The company has ...

As part of Computer Science Education Week, students around the world will participate in Hour of Code, a grassroots movement founded by national nonprofit Code.org to make coding more accessible.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In-game, the coding is represented by an actual helper robot that players will be able to code commands into. In ...

In a three-way partnership Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB and Code.org have announced the celebration of the third annual Hour of Code, a programming event directed at teaching children to program ...