Microsoft and Code.org have revealed that their Minecraft Hour of Code tutorials have introduced over 85 million young people to coding.Hey blockhead! Check out our list of the best Minecraft mods.

Disney and Code.org are joining forces in an effort to help educate on computer science and raise a new generation of game developers through a new Hour of Code online tutorial that teaches K-12 ...

In support of Code.org and the global Hour of Code campaign, Microsoft will also lead thousands of youth coding events in more than 60 countries. During Computer Science Education Week, this includes ...

Now Microsoft is using the game's popularity to further its mission — and Code.org's mission — to popularize computer science.

Sponsored by the website Code.org, which offers free online lessons in coding, the hope is that the Hour of Code, which uses games based on “Minecraft” and “Star Wars,” will show kids that ...

That’s the idea behind a new partnership between Code.org and Disney’s Lucasfilm, which today unveiled a new Star Wars-themed computer science tutorial for the upcoming Hour of Code campaign ...

Code.org, the organization behind Hour to Code, will shortly pilot a new middle school/lower high school introductory computer science course that will be free when it's released. For a short time ...

The code.org website is set up to allow users of all ages to go up to 20 hours beyond the hour of code tutorial to learn more complex computer science ideas, such as algorithms, functions and events.

To celebrate a milestone, Code.org today released a "Make Your Own Flappy Bird" tutorial that lets kids as young as six years old learn how to make their own Flappy Bird game in 20 minutes.

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.

Ten million students around the country are participating in Code.org's Hour of Code, an initiative to promote teaching computer science in public schools.

The Hour of Code, a campaign created by Code.org that began Dec. 9, aimed to push the U.S. in the right direction by working with school districts to help introduce more than 10 million students ...