BBC2546862 Micro:bit go, Original Version

Eh, this was posted about the same minute I was ordering one Micro:bit from Amazon UK (this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01G8X7VM2/ - perhaps the AAA battery holder is not really needed, if one has an USB power bank, but ...).

Intended for a couple of youngsters with many hours of Minecraft under their belts, and curious about making games, etc. Did not go too crazy about fizzbuzz in Python on a terminal screen (youth these days ;-)

I think this is great introduction for kids to learn what is corporate bullshit, what are buzzwords, etc.

"These are the only tools you will need to embark on this incredible journey to get your child prepared for the next IoT generation and solidify their role as a leader in technology!"

Those "incredible journey", "next IoT generation", "role as a leader", everything in a single sentence.

It also teaches kids that you can put link on a website, which you cannot click (again, good introduction into "modern" design which does not allow users to guess if something is a link, a button or just a text).

On lesson 1 Amazon, and other links are not clickable, they are just put as is:

"https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G8X7VM2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b..."

This gives us also a good opportunity to tell kids about spying and tracking in the Internet (this ref param, so useless for a users, so helpful to spy on them).

Another lesson is that sometimes links just does not exist or are broken, on lesson 2 we have:

"OPTION 1: Windows -> CLICK HERE to follow step-by-step instructions to set up on your computer." and, obviously you cannot CLICK HERE, because it is not a link...

One more lesson. People create content on some popular and well respected place, like Github, only to redirect users to their own crappy website with zero added value but with the intention to force someone to create account or sell something, etc.

Overall, pretty good stuff, one can learn really a lot (not about Python, however).