Well, the BBC had a whole program around getting schools into computing and it worked out fabulously well, so yes. It indirectly ended up giving us a novel processor that is used in just about everything as well.

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zozbot234 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are there any studies about the long-term educational effectiveness of those programs? They could definitely be effective wrt. teaching kids simple coding in BASIC or LOGO, but what about other kinds of outcomes?

	▲	jacquesm 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They bootstrapped the UK IT industry with this I would think that the outcome was successful beyond measure.