While many educators use Minecraft to teach liberals arts topics, many don’t realize that Minecraft is great for teaching kids coding.

Washington and other states have partnered with Minecraft Education to teach coding and other computer science skills.

One of the week-long courses, Minecraft – Game Modding & Java Coding, requires that its teen attendees already have a “solid understanding of programming languages such as Java, C++, or PHP.” ...

MakeCode is a new block-based coding environment that gives students superpowers in the Minecraft world to learn coding.

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 ...