Those who've been puzzling over why Microsoft spent $2.5 billion on Minecraft developer Mojang may need to puzzle no more. Jeff Teper — the "father of SharePoint" and (as of earlier this year) ...

A new one-hour programming tutorial lets students understand better how to build something as sophisticated as the wildly popular Minecraft game. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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 has ...

Often, Minecraftians (Minecrafters? Minecraftalities?) build wonderful things. On other occasions, they build things that are of almost no use whatsoever. This working BASIC programming code ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular computer games, is being turned into an educational tool in an ...

Today, Hacker News brought an interesting new Minecraft world-generation tool to our attention. Arnis uses free geospatial data from OpenStreetMap to generate detailed Minecraft maps based on a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Note: This guide focuses on the Bedrock version of Minecraft, available on Windows 10, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and mobile. Losing your way in ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft wants to turn kids’ love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming ...