Hello and welcome to the ‘Coding with the BBC Micro:bit’. We hope you are excited about learning to code on your own minicomputer. The projects in this book will get gradually more difficult and by the end of the book you will have coded animations, computer games and even created your own circuits. As well as these written instructions, all activities also have their own video instructions which you can find online at

www.fun-science.org.uk/bigboxofcodingvideos

The Microbit can accept four different ‘languages’ of coding – JavaScript, Blockly, Touch Develop and Python. We are going to be using Blockly for our coding. The first thing you need to do is to plug your Microbit into the computer using the USB cable.