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 ...

A free Minecraft coding tutorial from Microsoft, created for the upcoming and third annual Hour of Code, introduces players ages 6 and older to basic coding contained within the popular “sandbox” game ...

Corrections & Clarifications: The announcement was made Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO -- If you want to lure young girls into computer coding, go straight to the heart — which these days is likely to ...

First "Star Wars," now "Minecraft." Microsoft and Code.org, a nonprofit that aims to expose students to computer science, have unveiled a Minecraft coding tutorial for kids and educators. This is part ...

Giggles and gasps of excitement were heard from Jayden Ransom and his friend Andrew Cota as they moved the mouse furiously, noses pressed right up to the computer screen. What were they playing? Most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A national effort to get kids interested in coding goes local starting Dec. 8, as Adams County’s Anythink library system hosts an “hour of code” at ...

IT-consutling firm Accenture is bringing its Hour of Code coding tutorial into 15 languages for Computer Science Education Week. Accenture produced a tutorial on artificial intelligence in partnership ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Learning how to code has a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reputation. On the one hand, it promises to be a path to job stability, given that by 2020 some one million computer science ...

Every year, various computing companies associated with Code.org help promote and manage the Hour of Code campaign aimed at inspiring students to learn how to program. The campaign is held during ...