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; ...

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 dozen teenagers in military fatigues sit quietly fiddling with small devices in antistatic bags, waiting, like the other kids around them, for further instruction. A teacher murmurs a few sentences ...

Back in 2016, the BBC gave a million tiny computers to UK school kids for free as part of its Make It Digital project. The micro:bit boards were designed as learning tools to help get youngsters into ...

Is your child curious about how things work? Would you like to offer them a smart construction toy to nurture their creativity? BBC Micro Bit may be just the thing you need! As Wikipedia says, the ...

British school children will need to keep waiting for their Micro:bit, the compact, low-cost, Raspberry Pi-like computer that the BBC revealed last year as part of its “Make it Digital” campaign, ...