Article: The BBC Micro 2 - Look what's coming back to the classroom

[localzuk]

Interesting that they're pursuing this, and that they seem to have forked the Eclipse project to do so from the looks of that screenshot.

[ZeroHour]

You can view the page at http://www.edugeek.net/content.php?r=349-The-BBC-Micro-2-Look-what-s-coming-back-to-the-classroom

[CyberNerd]

theres a type on the link:

Hello World!

[Dos_Box]

Fixed.

[AWicher]

**cough** its hmmm, Arran!!!

 

That sort of error would get you on my ironically named "statim" fix list

[ZeroHour]

BTW Dos_box was the author but it appears to have tagged me...

[Dos_Box]

**cough** its hmmm, Arran!!!

 

That sort of error would get you on my ironically named "statim" fix list

 

My apologies. Still, I really do wish I had more to time to spend there as it looked like a facinating day and by the time I'd finished with the BBC everyone was packing up. I look forwards to the next one and intend to spend a full day there.

[danielstucke]

It looked really interesting, I've popped some of my thoughts down here: Daniel Stucke • BBC Micro 2.0 #ictcurric

[matt40k]

@ZeroHour have you seen the raspberry pi project?

[Dos_Box]

The BBC Micro 2 RP project?

[Gatt]

Website not working - getting a Whoopsy error?!

[Dos_Box]

Apparently they keep putting it up and down as they work on it. It only went live yesterday, and there is still a lot to do from what we have seen.

[JJonas]

@Dos_Box if Edugeek is seeing extra traffic it could be because Raspberry Pi posted a link to the Edugeek article on their Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raspberry-Pi/203296286406503

[garethEds]

@Dos_Box if Edugeek is seeing extra traffic it could be because Raspberry Pi posted a link to the Edugeek article on their Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raspberry-Pi/203296286406503

 

There was a discussion about this on Twitter today with raspberry_pi claiming it was a hoax. They retracted their comment and apologised.

 

Gareth

[Dos_Box]

I miss all of the exciting stuff!

[trevj]

Thanks for sharing this. I hope it proves to be a successful legacy project.

[Dos_Box]

There was a discussion about this on Twitter today with raspberry_pi claiming it was a hoax. They retracted their comment and apologised.

 

Gareth

 

There is more information on what happened here: BBC confirms new computing in schools programme | bit-tech.net and it was all a bit of a misunderstanding.

[somabc]

OMG this song! Audioboo / Hack Rap

[ZeroHour]

@ZeroHour have you seen the raspberry pi project?

 

Yep

We host Frambozenbiers forums (Frambozenbier: RasPi Forums) as well. Frambozenbier are not Raspberry Pi Foundation FYI just a website dedicated to working with the Pi's

 

Wow I go and have a baby and all that kicks up LOL.

[petectid]

Correct me if I'm wrong but can't coding be taught in schools without making any expenditure on new hardware and software. Isn't there a danger of money being wasted, as it often has in the past with expensive resources and hardware. I see that any investment in the change in curriculum would be better spent on training the teachers to deliver it.

[GrumbleDook]

Catch 22 really ... to teach coding in schools you tend to need coding environments. This either means time to set them up, get access to them on the web or to bring in kit to help do it. With things like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, etc it can simplify a lot of the work, especially when there is a ready community all helping to share resources and ideas. I small amount of expenditure to introduce open environments, make a move towards more open source offerings ... it can reap savings in years to come if planned right.

[petectid]

Yes Tony as usual you make alot of sense. The worrying side of all this is that if schools are given an overwelming choice of resources this will only go a long way to complicating what should be a simple process. I'm of the opinion that to teach programming in schools we should probably state that the language taught should be a cross platform and object orientated. Whether that means the compiled code has to be usable on muliple platforms or recompiled/modified to run on another. A language like Java would be cheap to use in schools as the JDK is free and can be installed on the workstations if not already. The coding could be typed into a simple text editor like notepad, textedit or kate. The skills used in using most OO languages are transferable to other OO languages. The only drawback with the simple text editor route is that you would have to give your pupils access to the Command line to compile it. I think this would be still easier than using an IDE package like Eclipse.

[Dos_Box]

The other big question is dependant on what IT course the schools do. I know there are a few course being worked on, but what languages and resources they require is still a bit of a mystery.

If any of the companies working on the new ICT curriculum courses are reading this and would care to post to give us all an idea of what to expect it would be very helpful.

[jinnantonnixx]

This made me smile.

 

 

 

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