The BBC has developed a computer to be used by thousands of students across the UK. While not very powerful in terms of hardware, it comes with an interpreted language that will get students writing ...

Micro:bit Educational Foundation has annonced a Python editor for the BBC micro:bit educational single-board computer, “purpose-built to address the hurdles learners usually face in working with the ...

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 ...

Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...

The way computing is taught in schools is going through its greatest upheaval since the subject was first introduced at the turn of the century. After considerable lobbying by the industry, ...

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 ...

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; ...

While almost all of the electronic distributors, hobbyist sites, and online electronic shops have the BBC micro:bit available for pre-order (officially available starting next July), thanks to ...

The BBC micro:bit is a tiny single-board computer designed to be distributed to students. First introduced five years ago, about five million micro:bit devices have been distributed to teachers and ...