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 ...

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 ...

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 BBC has unveiled the final design of its Micro Bit computer. The device will be given for free to million of UK children to help them learn to code and program devices. The BBC today unveiled the ...

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 ...