The blocks in Microsoft’s MakeCode coding language, and the blocks in Minecraft, are themselves models for the way that new learning happens through the application of concepts in an open-ended ...

Microsoft today unveiled Code Builder for ... the Classroom Mode for Minecraft: Education Edition, allowing educators to control the weather, mobs, chat, and blocks that can cause damage like ...

Like many nine-year-olds, Stanley Strum spends a lot of time building things in Minecraft ... and dropping virtual blocks, instead of typing out line after line of code. Foster says this should ...

So this may be what, when Microsoft paid a bazillion dollars for Minecraft ... would be an example of it going pretty darned well: Microsoft is joining hands with Code.org (the diversity-focused ...

Microsoft’s investment in MinecraftEDU seems promising and they’re expected to build out more Minecraft visual block coding challenges.

Thankfully, ThoughtSTEM has found a way to make coding ... by producing Minecraft mods that are appropriate to your skill level. If you're just starting out, you can use building blocks of code ...

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 block state in Minecraft is additional information that determines the nature and behavior of a given block. For example, block states are responsible for dictating whether fence blocks stand on ...

Educational group iD Tech Camps is using the block-building sandbox Minecraft ... One of the week-long courses, Minecraft – Game Modding & Java Coding, requires that its teen attendees already ...

This year, we’ve added a new twist to Hour of Code. Building on the popularity of Minecraft – the game that requires players to create a virtual world and work to advance in it – we are bringing a ...

This week, another great milestone in the field of running Minecraft ... that "blocks with multiple states, orientations, or ...