joining us is hadi partovi the founder of code.org. i'm watching my own children learn to code. re crazy about minecraft. how are you getting them to connect the two. hadi: thank you. it has been a privilege to work with two amazing brands, both star wars and minecraft. we are overjoyed with them being willing to contribute to this amazing movement of getting students to try coding and computer programming for the first time. cory: i get minecraft because i watch my kids play it obsessively and compulsively, but how does it work and how does the coding aspect of it work? with our minecraft tutorial, students write the code to control one of the alex, and, steve or the code that they write controls the character's movements and they can chop down trees or collect wood and build a house or go underground. they can mine diamonds or call and build things. these are the kinds of things that they can do inside the game. now, they are writing the code to control those things. they are also learning computer science concepts like loops and conditionals. cory: how does this work? how do p