BBC News: BBC plans to help get UK coding

[Phil]

Amazing how Sir Clive Sinclair - designer of the worst, nastiest, cheapest microcomputers in the world ever - still gets the final word on the BBC Micro and BBC BASIC story. The BBC Computer Literacy Project was phenomenally successful because they put aside the free market and competition rules and instead picked the best and most sustainable - designed and built by Acorn. And did us all a favour by shutting the door on the likes of Sir Clive and Lord Sugar.

However, a third of a century has passed and the new BBC is not the organization it was. They sold off their state-of-art studios and went cheap, they give all of their funding to their fat-cat managers and they couldn't film their way out of a paper bag. Even 'their' world-class documentaries are funded by other channels these days. I wouldn't trust them to manage a coding training project. What will be the follow-up language to 'BBC' BASIC? Perhaps 'Monty' Python?

Don't make me laugh.

Phil M1GWZ



On 8 Oct 2013, at 14:40, Andre Kesteloot wrote:

> I saw this story on the BBC News iPhone App and thought you should see it:
> 
> BBC plans to help get UK coding
> 
> The BBC will launch an initiative in 2015 to get coding more widespread in schools and homes.
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> Read more:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24446046
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