The BBC has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; ...
It’s a rather odd proposition, to give an ARM based single board computer to coder-newbie children in the hope that they might learn something about how computers work, after all if you are used to ...
The BBC has begun delivering its tiny Micro:bit programmable computers to students today, with every Year 7 in the UK due to receive theirs over the next few weeks. The spiritual successor to the BBC ...
Children across the UK are belatedly getting their hands on the Micro Bit computer The Micro Bit - a small computer designed to power internet-connected projects - is being handed out to thousands of ...
We offered a free classroom set of 30 micro:bits to primary schools across the UK as part of our BBC micro:bit - the next gen campaign. The deadline for UK primary school teachers to sign up for a ...