GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Viktor Rydberg school in Stockholm has introduced compulsory Minecraft lessons for its 13-year-old pupils in an effort to teach them about ...

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Programming languages can be daunting to learn, especially if you're a kid who'd rather be playing games than creating them. Thankfully, ThoughtSTEM has found a way to make coding both accessible and ...

One of the things that made the biggest impact on him was seeing representations of the civil rights protests led by Congressman John Lewis, when he and a handful of others faced hundreds of police ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Microsoft acquired Mojang and its mega-popular Minecraft game in 2014, CEO Satya Nadella ...

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 ...

Never underestimate the passion of a programmer and true geek at heart. That's the lesson to take away from today's story of little Julia, a 12-year-old girl who plays on her school's basketball and ...

“Learn to Program with Minecraft Plug-ins” (http://tinyurl.com/nnwctde) is a new book from Pragmatic Bookshelf that teachers you how to write your own Minecraft ...

Minecraft: Education Edition will be rolled out in May in schools for a closed beta program, followed by the launch of its "early access" program for teachers in June, Microsoft announced on April 14.

Back in January, Microsoft announced it had acquired MinecraftEdu, a version of the game designed specifically for schools. The Redmond company has now confirmed that the Beta version of Minecraft: ...