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 ...

Microsoft is joining hands with Code.org to bring Minecraft to a major coding event next month.

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 ...

Minecraft Gets Hour of Code Tutorial By Dian Schaffhauser 11/16/15 Computer Science Week is fast approaching, and Microsoft has teamed up with the organizers behind Minecraft and Hour of Code to ...

This article, Teaching kids to code, using Minecraft's building blocks, originally appeared on CNET.com. Server Design 1 uses the game Minecraft to help teach coding to kids. Mojang ...

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.

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.

Microsoft and Code.org are betting on kids' familiarity with Minecraft to help make computer programming more approachable.

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 ...