Minecraft Education Edition offers a whole host of learning opportunities. There are current events, chemistry and so many other fields for players to get into.

Minecraft: Education Edition can now teach kids how to code with the new Code Builder tool and the 'Agent', an in-game robot. Mojang will add Command Blocks in Education Edition later this year.

Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition is a brand-new extension that allows educators and students to explore, create, and play in an immersive Minecraft world – all by writing code.

To build particular structure in Minecraft, such as lighthouses or domes, you need to be able to build a circle and other circular structures.

In the new Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Voyage Aquatic, students use their creativity and problem-solving skills to explore and build underwater worlds.

The latest new feature in Minecraft: Education Edition makes it possible for students to learn how to code while playing the game.

Code Builder can be used in simplistic blocks, or flipped into a more powerful code-view mode. Minecraft's Code Builder beta will be available as part of Minecraft Education Edition.

After a few weeks of being in beta, Microsoft announced that Code Builder for Minecraft: Education Edition is now generally available. It allows students to create Minecraft worlds by writing code.

Back in May, at its education-centered event in New York, Microsoft announced Minecraft: Education Edition and Code Builder for children to use within the game.