![]() "One of the top things we hear from educators is that they want to be able to use for coding," says Deirdre Quarnstrom, head of education for Minecraft. Deirdre Quarnstrom, Minecraft's head of education The Education Edition has been used in schools to teach a broad range of subjects, but with the introduction of Code Builder this month, it's now a means for teaching kids to code - even from as young as six years-old. That's why what Microsoft has been doing with Minecraft is so important. But it's hard to implement, because first you need to teach the teachers they weren't taught programming at school, either. ![]() In the UK, Computer Science has recently been worked into the school curriculum, which is good news for our industry. I learned writing at a young age (as most of us did), but my brother had to teach himself the basics of coding, and strolled into university with little prior understanding of what he was about to study. Not only is computer science a difficult subject to master, you're simply not taught it at school. It's the latter Dring that has had the most challenging of the career paths. He's just found his first programming job at a major studio. Meanwhile my youngest sibling was fascinated by the science and coding of games. My middle brother discovered a knack for management, so ended up pursuing a career in business development. ![]() I always loved the writing, so I found my way from there into journalism. All three of us began our working lives as video game testers at the same company.
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