Microsoft and Code.org have come together to debut Minecraft Designer, a free tutorial for students aged 6 and up that uses the Minecraft environment to teach coding. Minecraft Designer is a free, ...

Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive. A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon ...

ANSBACH, Germany (Dec. 22, 2014) -- On Dec. 11 at Ansbach Middle High School, students and teachers participated in the second annual "Hour of Code," a global event that engages millions of people in ...

Code.org wants more high schools to offer computer science courses, and now it’s getting help from the College Board to do so. Seattle-based Code.org today announced a new partnership with College ...

Access to computer science courses in high schools has jumped significantly over the past three years—from 35 percent to 51 percent, concludes a new study by the non profit Code.org. But access to ...

Microsoft and Code.org offering educators a Minecraft-inspired coding tutorial for the classroom as part of Computer Science Education Week, 7-13 December Local computer education groups OMGTech!, ...

Since its creation, Code.org‘s mission has been to get coding into curriculums for students as schools nationwide. Today, the nonprofit group is launching Code Studio, a combined set of tools and ...

While computer science education experts acknowledged the uncertainty of the job market right now, they argued it’s still valuable to learn to code along with foundational computer science principles, ...

While some executives still preach the importance of learning the basics, others say there are more valuable skills to know ...

The government is behind it. In his 2016 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. should offer “every student the hands-on computer science and math classes that make them ...

Microsoft partners with local technology and education groups to translate new ‘Hour of Code’ Minecraft coding tutorials into Māori language for Computer Science Education Week Microsoft’s annual ...