This is staggeringly good news. My partner and I were bemoaning just a couple of months ago that kids weren't being taught enough coding in schools. We have a 1

This is staggeringly good news. My partner and I were bemoaning just a couple of months ago that kids weren't being taught enough coding in schools. We have a 15 year old family member coming to spend two weeks work experience at my software company next month and he has never written a single line of code. Given how in to computers this kid is, I feel somebody somewhere has let him down. In the face of this problem the BBC and a bunch of commercial partners have effectively donated one million BBC micro:bits to every year 7 student in England and Wales. This means that there are now one million kids in the UK aged 11+ who at the very least understand that programming is a thing and with any luck have experimented with it. My kid is only two but regardless I'm going to buy one of these now they're commercially available and see if I can get him to engage with it and me as we program it to do various things. Again, this is a huge step forward for teaching kids to code...great news :) I'd love to hear if any other countries have launched similar strategies to get their children to understand programming.