Ten years ago, on the 28 March 2005 the first Arduinos hit the market. There'd been maker boards before, and the early days of computing were full of machines that gave users access to the IO ports.

At Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where JonAlf Dyrland-Weaver is a teacher (as well as the Computer Science Coordinator), "Introduction to Computer Science" is a required course for all ...