The BBC has developed a computer to be used by thousands of students across the UK. While not very powerful in terms of hardware, it comes with an interpreted language that will get students writing ...

What sorts of things do you use masking operations for? Often a low-level API will require that particular bits in a status word are set or unset to make it operate in a particular way. A very ...

The entire comedy world, online and elsewhere, is enjoying a long, nostalgic love-in during the 40th anniversary of the formation and premiere of the Monty Python comedy troupe. In a perfect ...

The action of the bitwise NOT operator is very simple – it inverts all of the bits, setting ones to zeros and zeros to ones: Simple though that seems, the way that Python uses bignums to represent bit ...

These resources walk students through how to get started writing, testing, debugging and extending python code on a BBC micro:bit. This is designed for beginners, with the focus on how to display text ...

Colourful introductory Combining Logic Gates classroom poster. Includes all main components of the Micro:Bit, the editor IDE and how to download and flash. Poster at 4960 x 7096 pixels ready for A2 ...

Micro:bit Educational Foundation has annonced a Python editor for the BBC micro:bit educational single-board computer, “purpose-built to address the hurdles learners usually face in working with the ...

In a talk that could easily be seen as a follow-on to his PyCon 2015 talk, Josh Triplett presented at LinuxCon North America on using Python to explore the low-level firmware of today's systems. The ...

TV sketch show U&Gold 2014 5 episodes (1 series) Presented by self-confessed Monty Python nut, Hugh Bonneville, each episode sees the creme de la creme of the comedy world pick their favourite ...

A celebration of all things Python, as well known figures from the worlds of comedy and film pay tribute alongside classic clips. Expect The Spanish Inquisition.