Its developers at Microsoft hope to cultivate a large, open community for teachers and students around coding. “Before we launched the Education edition [of Minecraft] we spent about a year out with ...

Teaching kids to code, using Minecraft's building blocks Young Minecraft architects can now start getting an education in programming while they play the popular 3D video game.

During the #MicrosoftEDU press event, Microsoft introduced Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition that's available now as a beta.