Microsoft

MakeCode is a free, online, open source learn-to-code platform. Users can program the micro:bit, Minecraft, Lego Mindstorm, retro arcade games and more. Most of our targets involve hardware and students can download to microcontroller based devices. MakeCode started as a research project from Microsoft Research and there is a lot of great technology involved. One example: MakeCode uses a novel TypeScript to ARM assembly compiler that can compile user code and flash hardware devices in seconds all from the browser.