As coordinator for the SJCOE’s Code Stack Academy, Stockton’s first not-for-profit coding school, he’s familiar with micro:bit and uses it in classroom and lab programs.

But the great thing is that you don’t need to have your micro:bit with you to set off on your coding journey – you can start learning to code straight away using a virtual micro:bit.

Since mid-September, free micro:bits have been starting to arrive at primary schools who have signed up to the campaign and to mark this the micro:bit team visited schools in England, Northern ...

The micro:bit board includes a bank of LEDs, a pair of programmable buttons, an accelerometer to detect motion, a compass/magnetometer, Bluetooth connectivity and a selection of input and output ...