The BBC has developed a computer to be used by thousands of students across the UK. While not very powerful in terms of hardware, it comes with an interpreted language that will get students writing ...

Micro:bit Educational Foundation has annonced a Python editor for the BBC micro:bit educational single-board computer, “purpose-built to address the hurdles learners usually face in working with 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 ...

This article was first published in the October 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional ...

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; ...

It’s a small, cheap, British single board computer, and nobody can get hold of them. Another Raspberry Pi Zero story, you might think, but no, this is about the other small cheap and difficult to find ...

In the last installment of this series, Running Python with Arduino, we examined off-the-shelf possibilities for running Python with Arduino hardware. The best opportunities among the alternatives ...

Slimmed-down version of Python, rebuilt from the ground up, is designed to run fast and lean on microcontroller hardware The Python programming language’s flexibility and ease-of-use have made it ...

So you've made your own Sonic Screwdriver (Or at least, some kind of Sonic Gadget). Nice! But it's not going to do anything on its own - let's get coding and bring it to life! You've chosen to use the ...

Recently at BBC Research & Development, we got our hands on the new BBC micro:bit v2, a pocket-sized computer first launched in 2015 to help teach computer science. The first generation of this device ...