JimPerry
Senior Member
The register comments at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/12/bbc_coding_kids_1_million_micro_bit_giveaway/ are interesting - will it knock a big hole in RevEd's market
I'm all for it, too. Too bad the big-macs have this result:We're doing something similar in the states, except instead of microcontrollers, we're giving kids a free large-fries if they buy two big-macs... It will be interesting to see which country dominates in the coming generation!
Seriously though, what a great program! I haven't heard of anything like that here.
My son (7) and I have fun with an old PICAXE 08M...I put a little circuit together for him with 3 LEDs on it...I then wrote a quick little program to blink them using symbols...then we started coming up with ideas on how to blink them...and he "writes" (dictates) the code..."High RED" "Pause 1000" "Low RED" he loves it!Hey on the subject of kids and coding, my 8 year old godson has expressed an interest in learning to program - anyone have any suggestions as to where to start? My skills are somewhat basic, literally BASIC, but to most of my friends/family I begrudingly bear the title of 'whiz-kid' because too often I've fixed computer problems they've had.
I'd echo that, as there's a good chance that they'll come across Scratch at (primary) school. To make it more fun and allow real-world devices to be controlled, you can connect a Picaxe to Scratch using Rev-Ed's excellent S2P application.@Haku - there have been some efforts to get programming concepts into young minds... e.g. take a look at http://scratch.mit.edu/