Minecraft, one of the world's most popular computer games, is being turned into an educational tool in an experimental program in El Cajon.

A new one-hour programming tutorial lets students understand better how to build something as sophisticated as the wildly popular Minecraft game.

Minecraft: The video game that builds kids' brain cells Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history.

The thinking behind the popular game Minecraft could generate interest in programming among kids. Here's how.

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, ...

"They really came up with a way how to teach education in a fun way that students actually like and they settled on Minecraft as a way to teach [middle school students about personal finance ...

A team of computer scientists has developed a software package that allows users to learn how to program while playing the popular video game.

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 ...

Mojang Studios announced this week “ Minecraft Preview,” a standalone beta program meant to replace the Bedrock Beta application people have grown accustomed to.