Micro:bit Educational Foundation has annonced a Python editor for the BBC micro:bit educational single-board computer, “purpose-built to address the hurdles learners usually face in working with the ...

The initial development for Python on the micro:bit started down the road of using Microsoft’s TouchDevelop as a browser-based IDE that would send C++ code to an mBed cloud compilation service.

Find out more about the Microsoft MakeCode platform and the micro:bit, plus how you can access free coding training and ...

The micro:bit Python editor The final editor choice for the micro:bit is Python, in fact a micro:bit build of MicroPython.

The micro:bit is in fact a mbed OS product, so while it is designed to be used by the higher level programming languages like JavaScript and Python, you can in fact program it via mbed in C and C++.

Python Software Foundation The Python Software Foundation will be working with the BBC micro:bit to provide a code editor that will help to teach children the Python programming language.

Before long we are getting familiar with programming languages such as Python and Blockly and using micro:bit to turn up the volume on a specially-modified digital guitar.

Developers by no means are stuck with these two boards, but to really customize whatever the hardware that Micro Python will run on, developers need to understand a little bit about what is happening ...