Coding made easy with a micro:bit and the MakeCode platform

Find out more about the Microsoft MakeCode platform and the micro:bit, plus how you can access free coding training and ...
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 ...
BBC

BBC micro:bit launches to a generation of UK students

In a landmark moment, from today up to one million BBC micro:bits are being delivered free to every year 7 student in England and Wales, year 8 student in Northern Ireland and S1 student in Scotland.
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; ...