BBC micro:bit

The official micro:bit website is an outstanding resource for finding out more about the micro:bit and how to use it.

Explore the many easy to follow, well written and extremely detailed, animated tutorials for use by children and teachers to learn micro:bit skills.

Adapt these tutorials for use in a wide range of STEM and physical computing projects.

The site contains an online coding environment, the MakeCode editor, with a built in simulator for program testing.

Children who have already used Scratch will quickly adapt to MakeCode blocks (shown below).

Advanced programmers can flip the editor to Python to write their code using the Python text based coding environment.