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Microsoft, Code.org Will Use Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming
- Tutorial on coding will include 14 levels of popular game
- Nonprofit added Star Wars game to Hour of Code event
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Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with Code.org, the nonprofit that offers free programming tools for kids, to bring its best-selling personal-computer game Minecraft to the group’s popular Hour of Code tutorials.
Kids will be able to go to Code.org’s website and find a tutorial with 14 levels of Minecraft including a free-play board, said Deirdre Quarnstrom, director of Minecraft education at Microsoft, which is Code.org’s biggest financial backer. The agreement is the second this month for the computer-science educational group, which added Star Wars to its lineup last week.