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Welcome to the exciting world of building projects with BBC micro:bit! First, this chapter introduces the micro:bit and provides a shopping guide for micro:bit and its accessories, including starter kits and inventor's kits. Then you will learn how to power the micro:bit board using various powering options. The most interesting part of this chapter is when you write your first code for the micro:bit with the online Python editor, the Mu editor, and the JavaScript Blocks Editor. You will also learn how to flash a program to the micro:bit and run it. The latter part of the chapter introduces working with REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) using the Mu editor to run code line-by-line without flashing the complete program to the micro:bit.
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Seneviratne, P. (2018). Getting Ready. In: Beginning BBC micro:bit. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3360-3_1
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