Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular computer games, is being turned into an educational tool in an ...

A new one-hour programming tutorial lets students understand better how to build something as sophisticated as the wildly popular Minecraft game. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

A team of computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a software package that allows users to learn how to program while playing the popular video game Minecraft.

Microsoft partnered with Code.org late last year to help teach kids the basics of programming using Minecraft. But what about programming within Minecraft? For that, you'll need to turn to YouTuber ...

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling has ...

If you're just getting started, using Minecraft as a simple user teaches you to build things, in the same way that LEGO does. In other words, you learn how big things are built by a combination of ...

If you’re a Minecraft player who wants to know what’s what regarding future updates prior to their releases, you’ll soon have a new way to keep track of that stuff and actually go hands-on with it, ...