Re: [python-uk] Volunteers needed test/break the ALPHA Python micro:bit blocks

2017-03-07 Thread William Mayor
Hi N! Towards the end of this month I’m running a week-long computer science course for A-level students. We take on some challenges to explore during the week. Something here could make for a good challenge I think. You might remember that last year (in Dec) we made an attempt at adding save,

Re: [python-uk] Volunteers needed test/break the ALPHA Python micro:bit blocks

2017-03-07 Thread Steve Holden
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:18 AM, William Mayor wrote: > Thanks for your work on this BTW! Having MicroPython on the bits is lovely! > +1,000 Steve Holden ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-u

Re: [python-uk] Volunteers needed test/break the ALPHA Python micro:bit blocks

2017-03-07 Thread Russel Winder
On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 19:09 +, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Several of us have been busy hacking together a blockly based UI for > MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit (thanks Carlos). > Is this related to or different from the Microsoft micro:bit programming environment – which I

Re: [python-uk] Volunteers needed test/break the ALPHA Python micro:bit blocks

2017-03-07 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
On 07/03/17 10:34, Russel Winder wrote: > Is this related to or different from the Microsoft micro:bit > programming environment – which I saw at NorDevCon a couple of weeks > back and it is quite good. > Nope, it's nothing to do with PXT (created by Microsoft from their TouchDevelop platform). W

Re: [python-uk] Volunteers needed test/break the ALPHA Python micro:bit blocks

2017-03-07 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
On 07/03/17 10:18, William Mayor wrote: > Is there anything we could take a crack at? > Careful what you ask for. ;-) I was really impressed by your student's work. Please let me know when you do it again - I'd love to see what they get up to. In terms of what you could do, it's a bit of a long