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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

BOULDER, CO--(Marketwired - March 22, 2017) - SparkFun Electronics will begin carrying the micro:bit in the United States, available for pre­-sale at www.sparkfuneducation.com starting March 21 and ...

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