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 ...

MakeCode is a new block-based coding environment that gives students superpowers in the Minecraft world to learn coding.

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 ...

The program was created for the Hour of Code, an annual campaign that takes place during Computer Science week from Dec. 5-11 and encourages young students and educators to spend an hour learning ...

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.

The event, called "Coding for Minecraft," is scheduled for Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The program, intended for children ages 8 to 12, requires advance registration.

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 ...

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.