Power Your Imagination with BBC Micro:bit

What you'll learn

Learning the history of the BBC micro:bit and MakeCode
Learning the key features in micro:bit
Use the LED display to show text and figures
Use the buttons and sensors in the Micro:bit to generate different outputs
Beginner level programming concepts like loops, boolean, logics and variables in the MakeCode Editor
Design and code a program that can assist our daily life
Understand how an accelerometer in micro:bit works and use it to make spirit levels with various sensitivity
Combine all the programming concepts and make some games

Requirements

No prior knowledge in programming is needed
Students need to have a device that can access to the internet
Physical micro:bit is not required. You can use the virtual micro:bit in MakeCode.

Description

Hello everyone. Welcome to the 7-day micro:bit course. Here, we split the course in seven sections. Each section has a main topic like variable, boolean and probability, etc. You will learn the basic programming concepts using the blocks in MakeCode which is much easier than the text-based programming language.

This course is targeted to everyone especially children who want to get started with programming. Parents and teachers can also use this course as an inspiration to teach your kids and students.

We have detailed explanation for every concepts which is very important for programming. This course is filled with hands on projects which can help you get familiarize with the concepts.

Assignments are inside the lecture notes.

I hope to see you in the course. Come join us!

Who this course is for:

Anyone who want to get started in programming and are not used to text based programming
Parents who want to teach their child programming
This course is very easy to understand even for primary school students