Moving to Microsoft MakeCode...

Taking the learnings of Touch Develop and the BBC micro:bit, the team decided to rebuild a new editor better suited for computer science education and physical computing in schools... Microsoft MakeCode. Go To MakeCode!

Touch Develop will retire on June 22, 2019. Sign-in and access to cloud assets was removed on May 23, 2018. Learn More..

Touch Develop

Create your apps on your phone, tablet or laptop.

Touch Develop will retire on June 22, 2019. Sign-in and access to cloud assets was removed on May 23, 2018. Learn More..

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Touch Develop and the BBC micro:bit

The Touch Develop team is proud to be part of the BBC micro:bit project. The micro:bit is a small wearable and programmable mbed-based device that visibly features a 5x5 LED display, accelerometer, compass, buttons, I/O pins, Micro USB plug, Bluetooth Low Energy antenna, ARM Cortex-M0 processor, and battery plug. Taking the learnings from Touch Develop, we have rebuild a new experience with Microsoft MakeCode. MakeCode editor

Open Source on GitHub

You can fork it there, submit pull requests with bug-fixes or new features, submit and comment on issues in the bug-tracker, and check on latest activity.

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About Touch Develop

Touch Develop has been under active development since 2009 at Microsoft Research in Redmond.

Touch Develop retirement postponed until June 22, 2019. Sign-in and access to cloud assets to be removed on May 23, 2018.Learn More..

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