'Minecraft' Game-making Tutorial Teaches Kids how to Code

Microsoft knows that Minecraft can get kids into programming, and it's banking on that strategy this year. It's teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer which will teach young people (6 years old and older) how to design an easy game. The Designer makes use of a drag-and-drop interface to show familiar code concepts, such as loops and object-oriented programming while letting your imagination run wild in Minecraft's blocky universe. You can make chickens drop gold and create rules that are as absurd or as rational as you like.
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The tutorial is available right now in 10 languages and will be available in 50 languages by the time Computer Science Education Week kicks on the 5th of December. It's not as easy as picking up programming languages, of course. However, Microsoft and Code.org are betting that this will show the importance of programming to children, and set some of them on a path to computer science careers.