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 ...

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.

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

While many educators use Minecraft to teach liberals arts topics, many don’t realize that Minecraft is great for teaching kids coding.

Its developers at Microsoft hope to cultivate a large, open community for teachers and students around coding. “Before we launched the Education edition [of Minecraft] we spent about a year out with ...