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.

Learning to code isn’t enough Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive.

Computer science teacher Janet Cook said she believes Hour of Code is important because the initiative encourages students to learn a new technology skill.

Founded in 2013 by Partovi and his brother Hadi, Code.org offers free online learning courses to help expand participation in computer science. The organization’s goal is to get computer science ...

OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor said that reports telling students not to learn to code are total "misinformation." ...

Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI, a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence ...

OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor said high schoolers should be learning how to code. Sidor said learning to code is about much ...