Minecraft lets you make your own player skin or download it from popular websites. This is a great way of standing out from the crowd by looking unique.

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org that will bring Minecraft into the education curriculum. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to prominence due to its ...

Teaching kids to code, using Minecraft's building blocks Young Minecraft architects can now start getting an education in programming while they play the popular 3D video game.

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 ...

Microsoft knows that Minecraft can get kids into programming, and it's banking on that strategy again this year. It just teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a ...

New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play Like many nine-year-olds, Stanley Strum spends a lot of time building things in Minecraft, the immersive game that lets your create your own mini ...

During the #MicrosoftEDU press event, Microsoft introduced Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition that's available now as a beta.

Minecraft: Education Edition can now teach kids how to code with the new Code Builder tool and the 'Agent', an in-game robot. Mojang will add Command Blocks in Education Edition later this year.

The latest new feature in Minecraft: Education Edition makes it possible for students to learn how to code while playing the game.