[Wylug-discuss] What I've been up to with the open university

[Rob Speed]

Not that I'm pushing any kind of BBC agenda you understand, but www.microbit.org might be useful.
Especially the Code Kingdoms bits and pieces. The best bit is you don't need a Micro:bit to get started.

BTW - there's also a C compiler, but we're not pushing that as the Micro:bit is aimed at inspiring kids who've no prior experience.


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Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] What I've been up to with the open university

Not a good start

sense.open.ac.uk just gives a blank page

On Thursday 01 December 2016 10:16:34 Gary Stainburn via Wylug-discuss wrote:
> Is that like Blocky?  I have it embedded in my Home Automation system and
> found it very frustrating.  It also has LUA embedded which is only
> marginally less frustrating
>
> On Thursday 01 December 2016 09:26:26 Darren Menachem Drapkin via
>
> Wylug-discuss wrote:
> > It may amuse you to know, that since September, I have been at the Open
> > University, studying computing. One of the things they expect us to
> > learn is a new kind of graphical programing environment they call
> > "Sense". It is based on MIT's "scratch". If you have never seen either,
> > they both look a bit like a children's construction toy. The paradigm is
> > mostly procedural with some multi-tasking.
>
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