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 ...

Minecraft, a popular PC game, is now a gateway into the programming world. And, in a novel approach to teaching programming, a new book from No Starch Press, “Learn to Program with Minecraft” ($29.95, ...

A team of computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a software package that allows users to learn how to program while playing the popular video game Minecraft.

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 ...

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 ...

Since its release in 2011, Minecraft has captured the hearts and minds of today’s youth. With the recent release of MinecraftEDU school version, this popular game is rapidly becoming the most ...

If you're just getting started, using Minecraft as a simple user teaches you to build things, in the same way that LEGO does. In other words, you learn how big things are built by a combination of ...

If you’re a Minecraft player who wants to know what’s what regarding future updates prior to their releases, you’ll soon have a new way to keep track of that stuff and actually go hands-on with it, ...