@inproceedings{ball2016microsoft,
author = {Ball, Thomas and Protzenko, Jonathan and Bishop, Judith and Moskal, Michal and de Halleux, Peli and Braun, Michael and Hodges, Steve and Riley, Clare},
title = {Microsoft Touch Develop and the BBC micro:bit},
booktitle = {ICSE 2016 Companion},
year = {2016},
month = {May},
abstract = {The chance to influence the lives of a million children does not come often. Through a partnership between the BBC and several technology companies, a small instructional computing device called the BBC micro:bit will be given to a million children in the UK in 2016. Moreover, using the micro:bit will be part of the CS curriculum. We describe how Microsoft's Touch Develop programming platform works with the BBC micro:bit. We describe the design and architecture of the micro:bit and the software engineering hurdles that had to be overcome to ensure it was as accessible as possible to children and teachers. The combined hardware/software platform is evaluated and early anecdotal evidence is presented. A video about the micro:bit is available at http://aka.ms/bbcmicrobit.},
publisher = {ACM - Association for Computing Machinery},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/microsoft-touch-develop-and-the-bbc-microbit/},
}