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
Course content
- Preview14:09
- 21:47Micro:bit Program Control
- 32:00Variables
- 07:59The Use of Probability
- 10:25Boolean
- 26:34Spirit Level
- 18:51Make a Game!
Instructor
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- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 2 Reviews
- 3 Students
- 1 Course
Established in 2012, Pi innovation is a Hong Kong based company that specialized in provideing STEM programs. Including courses for mbot, micro:bit, MIT App Inventor, 3D printing and programming.
We aimed to help students to start their science, technology, engineering and math journey in a fun and inspiring way. Our team consist of professional programmers and engineers who have years of teaching experience.