It just teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a tutorial that teaches young newcomers (6 years old and up) how to create a simple game.

Code.org estimates that more than 100 million students have tried the Hour of Code tutorial. Rachel Lerman: [email protected]; on Twitter @rachelerman.

Hadi Partovi, the co-founder of Code.org, could only speak with me by FaceTime from a locked storage closet with no windows — Disney’s rules for those working on the project. Schools teach the ...

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 ...

“The 2016 Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial builds on the success of the original in a great way,” said Mike Harvey, technology teacher from Falmouth, Maine. “By programming familiar game events ...