While many educators use Minecraft to teach liberals arts topics, many don’t realize that Minecraft is great for teaching kids coding.

They're in a week-long Minecraft Modding and Java coding camp called ID Tech. They've been creating and testing Minecraft Mods, making tools for this virtual world.

MakeCode is a new block-based coding environment that gives students superpowers in the Minecraft world to learn coding.

Code is inherently slow due to Minecraft 's 20Hz operation clock (you can never perform more than 20 commands per second), and it bogs down the more you use it.