'Minecraft' game-making tutorial teaches kids how to code

[Joystiq]

Microsoft knows that

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, and it's banking on that strategy again this year. It just teamed up with

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to introduce the

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, a tutorial that teaches young newcomers (6 years old and up) how to create a simple game. The Designer uses a drag-and-drop interface to illustrate familiar code concepts, such as object-oriented programming and loops, while letting imaginations run wild in Minecraft's blocky universe. You can make chickens that drop gold, and otherwise set rules that are as logical or ludicrous as you'd like.

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