[Microbit-Python] Porting the TouchDevelop Examples to MicroPython

Corinne Welsh corinne at lilycat.co.uk
Fri Jan 29 13:03:59 EST 2016


> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anyone had started working their way through the
> TouchDevelop Examples found here: https://www.microbit.co.uk/td/lessons
> Although the TouchDevelop ones definitely need some TLC themselves before
> they're unleashed on Teachers proper.
>
> I was considering doing so myself, in order to get up to speed with
> MicroPython on the MicroBit. Would it be useful to turn them into
> introductory resources for teachers and students to help get them up to
> speed, too? Or is a similar, parallel effort already under way?
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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> Dave,
>
> You are truly a star among teachers..!
>
> Indeed, there are efforts to create resources for teachers and students,
> but not based upon the lessons that exist for TD and anyway, these are
> still in the planning stages.
>
> I'd like to convene an (online) meeting for people interested with these
> efforts. How's Monday evening looking for you..? I'm having a call with
> Yvonne Walker from CAS about this very sort of thing (we want to run a
> workshop for CAS master teachers in London soon). Care to join us (online)?
>
> That goes for anyone else...
>
> N.
>
Hi

I'm interested in joining with these plans.  I go out to a
(self-imposed) Django study session on Monday evenings, so not sure I
can make the online meeting.  But keen to keep up with the discussion.

Corinne


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