Microsoft today announced that a new Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorial, Hero’s Journey, has been released as part of its ongoing support for Hour of Code. This is the third consecutive year that ...

Welcome to the Minecraft XP Crash Course! In this tutorial, we dive deep into the world of experience points in Minecraft.

Like digital screens built from tiny pixels, Minecraft is a virtual world of pixelated landscapes crafted by players using digital building blocks. Playing Minecraft is like playing with digital Lego ...

With 30 million trials of last year’s Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Microsoft and Code.org believe the new offering will again introduce tens of millions to coding for the first time SINGAPORE, 16 ...

Getting children excited about learning isn’t always easy, but packaging it in one of their favorite video games is an easy way to win them over, which is where Minecraft Education Edition comes in.

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 ...

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Microsoft has today shared that it will be releasing Minecraft: Education Edition for iPad to enrich classroom learning around the world next month. Announced in a blog post, Microsoft said that ...

Minecraft: Education Edition makes its way to the iPad. (Microsoft Photo) Just in time for back-to-school, “Minecraft: Education Edition” is coming to Apple’s iPad. And also for the first time, a set ...

The early-access edition is a not-quite-yet-finished version of the product that is available for free for testing purposes. Minecraft Education Edition works on Windows 10 or OS X El Capitan and ...

Microsoft is continuing its mission to find educational uses for Minecraft with the news that it has acquired MinecraftEdu, a company that makes a modified version of Minecraft specifically for the ...

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