![]() Students in my after-school computer science classes lucky enough to tinker with coding in Minecraft went nutso crazy, in a good way. Then Minecraft emerged as the game people everywhere were playing and we found ourselves wanting to code inside Minecraft, too. Our TouchDevelop group wanted anyone to be able to program their phones as easily as we did 8-bit computers. These devices are much more powerful, graphic and sensor rich computers than those we learned to code on as kids. The research is an outgrowth of our TouchDevelop program, which we started in 2011 to teach people how to program and build apps using the touchscreen on their phones. After all, game playing is the most natural way for humans to learn. Our goal is to leverage this enthusiasm to teach kids how to code while playing Minecraft. That no rules, open-world environment is all part of its appeal. Many grownups don’t understand Minecraft.
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