I have a passion to share my love of coding with kids whether it be through Lego Mindstorms robotics, The Hour of Code, or Minecraft. “Wait, did you say Minecraft?” Yep, you read that right. Minecraft ...

I enjoyed reviewing a programming book from No Starch Press back in January. So when they contacted me about doing a review of Learn to Program With Minecraft, I jumped at the chance. I’m glad I did.

YouTube user SethBling has created a groundbreaking BASIC programming language interpreter within the Minecraft game. This innovative project utilizes command blocks to write a BASIC interpreter in ...

Computers exist in Minecraft, of course. You can build your own virtualized machine with a mod called OpenComputer (and probably others) and it will sure enough be a “real” computer. Different ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Concerned because you can’t pry your daughter away from Minecraft?

I loaded the map data for Ginowan City and turned the entire city into a Minecraft world. Even though the shapes of the buildings are quite different from reality, when you walk along the roads, you ...

Minecraft is a fun "game" and it already has aspects of programming within it so what could be more logical than using it to teach programming? This is an undeniably good idea but there are some ...

North Carolina-based developer Idrees Hassan loves Minecraft so much that he recently created a monospaced font for programming based on the typeface found in the wildly popular video game. The result ...