What is the BBC micro:bit - Gary explains 

bloody love Gary and his videos. Been watching for ages and these videos are great. Thank you Gary

Gary is by far the best on Android Authority. Super professional, and informative. Wish you would do some of the smartphone reviews.

I only know c++....this is good to know. Thank you for explaining IDE

Thanks you for all videos ...... you are the best

Isn't "Hello World" a good entry point into programming! :-P Great great video as always sir :)

Thanks a lot! Just bought one for college I'm from Canada

garry thank you so much

gary u are the best..... keep it up.

So funny you would mention Commodore 64 my very first Job was Toyrus where I sold those computer's which got me interested in Tech and Computer's from their I learned how to take them apart. I then went into Manhattan and started looking for a job.Thanks for sharing Memories.Deb

"Gary Explains" is nice thumbs Up !

this is great! I've just gotten into programming and I have 2 raspberry pis I've been tinkering with.i was about to buy are but I'm going to try this out instead.

I like the ending. That was great with the snow falling and having a cold. Thanx for the vid.

Thanks you😊

very informative

Hi Gary, thanks for this. Have you tried attaching external components using the pins? Is there a connector system to do so or are you expected to solder?

I have done this in school 💻 computer lessons

+android authority, what's going on with y'all's app? I haven't seen any updates in on over a week.

this is very helpful

ayy in school we were using them today :D

can i watch the grand tour if i buy it?

YES let gary do more he knows what he is talking about rather than reading off a box

I'm actually gonna do this in my school!

Hey Gary, Why don't you open an RU-vid channel named "Gary Explains." I really like your videos. Thanks

gary can u make a video on DSP integration in mobile SOCs

Are the bottom copper strips used as I/O? If so, how can you use/reach them?

I had the ZX Spectrum!!!!

I have now bought a microbit

Gary what are your thoughts on having programming taught in highschools? Maybe not even pure coding, but courses such as Critical thinking, or courses in logic. Teach relational algebra, logic in the real world, and maybe a language like Visual basic. Myself as a student in Comp Sci, its amazing how this sort of field changes the way you think through complex problems, I personally think it should be a requirement to take some sort of logic class. Huge companies habe recently been sponsoring Code.org in order to help push teaching programming to younger audiences

When you look around the class room and see you are the only one using java script

What's the age category for this?

can someone please provide a link to buy the BBC micro?

nice descusssion

I like the idea of trying to get people to program. But I feel like they are missing the point of the 1980s Home computers. You didn't need to have another computer to use them. You just needed a TV. For computers like the ZX81 you just needed a TV and maybe a tape recorder to use it. And it wasn't unusual for even a poor family to have TV and tape recorder. And they were teaching basic and logo programming to elementary school students when I was a kid. My older brother bought a Color Computer MC10, kind of a Tandy version of the ZX81, and I was writing code on that when I was 10 years old without a classroom. I specifically wrote a mathematically naive version of breakout that always reflected the ball by just inverting the X or Y velocity when the ball hit something. I don't think these "Block" programming languages are that brilliant. I think they are underestimating what children are capable of. Kids have a mind like a sponge which learns language skill faster than a college age student can and when they are fixated on something like programming they just won't stop. I kind of get it, but an IDE for a text based programming language would be probably better in the long run. And if you already have a PC/Computer then what's really necessary is to not require an "add on" or even a download for you start learning programming on it. It should be part of the natural way you interact with the system just as it was with the original BBC Micro.

I have 3 of them

but if foreigner's can get visas for coding jobs what good is it to get a degree?

Do you need a TV licence for it lol

okie

can it stream topgear?

If the BBC SBC didn't run Python, the universe would be out of balance, somehow.

what's your qualification?

I have no more ideas.

Late 70s and early 80s, not late 80s and early 90s

dice is the plural brexit ninja!

another popularity contest of programming languages? after suffering basic, machine code, assembler, pascal, c, c++, java, javascript, perl, shell, bash, css, html, php, R, I opt out.

Since when the British media did this?

This guy makes me sleep!

Try not to punch a production of it. He will fire you and Amazon are going to make a deal with you.

Audio quality is terrible on this video.

only if they put good rgb lights it would be perfect in this state is stupidly wasted effort :'(

INTRO TOOOOOOOO LOUD.. than the voice of anchor-er. Have to play with volume controls every time i watch this channels video. Please consider fixing that.

With the release of the Maker Uno, the Micro:bit is looking less appealing

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BBC? Lol

I have it . . . I got bored of it after 1 computing lesson

Thats way too overpriced for its capabilities. If RBP zero can be sold for 5 euros, the microbit can surely be sold for a euro or two.

Block building needs to go. Kids will be turned off when they see the complexity of actual code. They are being lied to, they think "Look what I did with my micro:bit, I'm such a good programmer".... All the while they haven't seen nor written a single statement of code.

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BBC micro bit? Confusing:/

this vs arduino uno r3

Gary How much do you earn for one video??

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FIRST

Hey android authority I'm first plz pin

BBC? lol

Shame Java script is unsecured and pretty much dead technology now!

zzzzz. tiring and slow

lol wow - so playstations are to blame

get that Wang out of your mouth so I can hear you

AA, I don't think these kinds of videos help. please stop.