Microsoft and Code.org have come together to debut Minecraft Designer, a free tutorial for students aged 6 and up that uses the Minecraft environment to teach coding. Minecraft Designer is a free, ...

With 30 million trials of last year’s Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Microsoft and Code.org believe the new offering will again introduce tens of millions to coding for the first time SINGAPORE, 16 ...

When we say coding is a child’s play, Microsoft took it literally. While we lacked encouragement to program when we were young, the future for our children seems bright. Microsoft has a few ...

Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples. At the MSDN Code Gallery (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At its education event earlier in May, Microsoft unveiled its latest effort to help kids learn ...

Microsoft has introduced Visual Studio Code for Education, a new computer science instruction platform that takes students beyond beginner coding and teaches them tools used by professional developers ...

Microsoft has released the March 2020 update for its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) open-source code editor for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux systems with bug fixes, accessibility improvements, better ...

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Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model for “optimal performance.” This new auto model feature will select between ...

Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples. At the MSDN Code Gallery (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com ...