The tutorial takes an hour to go through on average to fit with the Hour of Code theme, and it is available in ten languages right now with 50 planned by December 5.

Minecraft' Hour of Code Designer tutorial will show how the ever-popular gaming title can be even more effective in making kids excited to code.

The 14-level tutorial was created for the third annual "Hour of Code," a campaign that seeks to get educators and young people interested in coding.

Hour of Code tutorials are designed to walk you through the concepts behind computer code, allowing both kids and adults to accomplish simple programming commands. Instead of just telling you how ...

IT-consutling firm Accenture is bringing its Hour of Code coding tutorial into 15 languages for Computer Science Education Week. Accenture produced a tutorial on artificial intelligence in ...

In a three-way partnership Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB and Code.org have announced the celebration of the third annual Hour of Code, a programming event directed at teaching children to program ...

Computer Science Week is fast approaching, and Microsoft has teamed up with the organizers behind Minecraft and Hour of Code to encourage students to pick up coding within the Minecraft environment.

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The code.org website is set up to allow users of all ages to go up to 20 hours beyond the hour of code tutorial to learn more complex computer science ideas, such as algorithms, functions and events.

The tutorial is part of Hour of Code, in which kids can take an hour to learn some coding basics. The Star Wars tutorial will be available starting Monday.