SAN FRANCISCO – Learning how to code has a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reputation. On the one hand, it promises to be a path to job stability, given that by 2020 some one million computer science ...

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 ...

A student completes the Minecraft-themed coding tutorial that Microsoft built with Code.org. (Microsoft Photo) Code.org is giving low-income students a chance to learn how to code through a free ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Any resistance the young people in your life may have to learning basic computer science will effectively melt on Monday, when Microsoft and the non-profit group Code.org release a ...

Satya Nadella leaned closer to the workstation. A pair of coders plugging away on a Dell laptop had reached an impasse. Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive and a longtime software engineer, knew the ...

Jocks and nerds haven’t always gotten along in years past, but Code.org aims to bring them together for the third annual Hour of Code with a sports-themed coding campaign. The campaign, which kicks ...