These tutorial sheets are designed to give students an introduction to the features of the Micro:bit. Short practical examples are provided and students are invited to design solutions to problems using the fundamental building blocks presented.
Teaching students to code by using a microprocessor and embedded sensors on the board, was an approach inspired by Prof. Stephen Hailes at UCL. (His team also designed the Engduino, see http://www.engduino.org). Steve created the teaching material for the Engduino and some of that content is reused here. The design of the Micro:bit was strongly influenced by the Engduino and some of this material is taken directly from the Engduino tutorial sheets. Likewise, in some places, the content is an abridged version of the BBC Micro:bit MicroPython documentation at http://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io.
The Challenge sheets can be used for team competitions or just for fun! Some of them were adapted from the exercises by M. Atkinson on the website Multiwingspan, http://multiwingspan.co.uk/micro.php.
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If you would like to contribute, go ahead! Install git and create a branch. It would be great to have more challenges and some projects. The documentation is built with sphinx-docs, http://www.sphinx-doc.org/. You only need to install sphinx-docs if you want to generate a copy of the documentation locally. Follow instructions on the sphinx-docs website for information about how to install sphinx-docs. If you want to generate pdf documents locally then you must also install latex.