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 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; ...

We always have mixed feelings about the drag-and-drop programming languages. But we were impressed with [SirDan’s] Morse code decoder built with the graphical MakeCode. Granted, it is reading 5 ...

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A tiny programmable board designed as part of an educational initiative for UK kids to learn programming skills and originally distributed by the public service broadcaster, the BBC, to one million ...

MICROPROCESSOR, MACRO SCALE: On March 22,the BBC shipped the first of its tiny micro:bit coding devices to one million students in year seven (ages 11-13) across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link It has taken a long time for the BBC micro:bit to finally reach students in the UK. The device was first announced in 2015, but it has gone ...

The micro:bit was originally part of the BBC’s Make It Digital campaign last year that was intended to educate people on IT skills. After being delayed several times, the palm-sized computer finally ...

Following this morning's announcement of the BBC's Micro Bit programmable computer, WIRED.co.uk takes a closer look at the new piece of technology, and speaks to one of the people behind its creation.

There is a whole generation of computer scientists, software engineers, coders and hackers who first got into computing due to the home computer revolution of the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Machines ...

A new version of the pocket-sized BBC micro:bit computer is coming to schools worldwide, packed with new features designed to keep young students up-to-date with the latest hot trends in technology.