The Minecraft tutorials is one of more than 170 offerings as part of an annual, international movement called Hour of Code, which was started in 2013 by an U.S. non-profit organization Code.org to ...

Created by Minecraft game designers at Mojang and Microsoft, in partnership with Code.org, we are told that "the fun and easy-to-learn one-hour experience builds on the success of last year's ...

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 ...

Minecraft uses a J ava V irtual M achine (JVM) to run its source code on your computer. By default, Minecraft comes packaged with the OpenJDK JVM, which is the most commonly used JVM, and has been ...

Kids will be able to go to Code.org ’s website and find a tutorial with 14 levels of Minecraft including a free-play board, said Deirdre Quarnstrom, director of Minecraft education at Microsoft ...