Digital Journal

BBC micro:bit to teach ‘hundreds of millions’ to code

The micro:bit was conceived as a device to get children interested in computers, emulating the excitement around early PCs like the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum in the 1980s. With the micro:bit, the BBC ...
ZDNet

BBC Micro Bit: Can one million of these tiny computers create the next generation of coders?

The BBC had started delivering the first of its Micro Bit programming boards to students, a project which it hopes will help create the next generation of coders and tech entrepreneurs. Up to one ...
Mashable

I've built a metronome with BBC's micro:bit and British school kids can too

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; ...
Digital Trends

BBC creates foundation for Micro:Bit, announces international launch

Much like the original BBC Micro from the ’80s, or the Raspberry Pi, the BBC Micro:Bit has proved a successful way to encourage programming and hardware hacking in younger generations and bedroom ...
Digital Trends

The BBC is helping kids learn to code with one million free Micro: bits computers

For a million kids in the United Kingdom, a version of Christmas came early this year. That is, if your version of Christmas includes a Micro: bit computer and the promise of a tech savvy future. On ...
Android Authority

What is the BBC micro:bit - Gary explains

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 ...