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

He said students go behind the scenes of their favorite video games, like "Roblox" and "Minecraft," and learn coding languages to build their own. "They start with what's called 'block coding.' ...

Learning to code is about a lot more than just programming basics, OpenAI researcher Szymon Sidor said.

9 Places to Learn How to Code in 15 Minutes or Less a Day These coding games and apps will help you learn how to program in no time flat.

From Hasbro's Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar to Anki's Cozmo to the Lego Boost kit, theses games and robots are teaching kids the basics of computer programming.

Osmo's latest iPad game lets kids use modular, magnetic blocks to create sets of executable instructions.