

Ms Jowell said: “All who qualify will get help for the cheapest option and a contrib-ution will be made towards a more expensive option. The scheme will be funded through the television licence fee. Older and disabled people who do not receive income-related benefits will pay a subsi-dised #40 fee to “go digital”. Both the installation and on-going support will also be free. Those older or disabled people who receive pension credit, income support or income-related jobseekers allowance will be given the equipment to convert one of their television sets to digital free of charge. Most of North Wales is due to make the switch-over in 2009.īefore then, under plans outlined in the Commons last night, any households with one person aged over 75 or with a significant disability will receive help to make the switch. Mu has a “Mode” button which can be used to write Python, MicroPython and CircuitPython.THOUSANDS of elderly and disabled viewers in North Wales will be given a digital TV box free of charge, the Government announced last night.Ĭulture secretary Tessa Jowell unveiled a #600m programme to ensure the most vulnerable people were not left behind when the analogue TV signal was switched off.

Mu has one feature that elevates it above other beginner editors. If you are starting out with Python, Mu is an excellent choice to introduce the language. Modules are libraries of code that can be used to add new features, for example RPi.GPIO and GPIO Zero are modules that enable Python to talk to the Raspberry Pi GPIO. This is where the ease of Mu works against it, as there is no means to install Python modules. The default is to write Python 3 code, to be run on our machine. It can output the results of our code and it can be used to access the REPL. A builtin checker and tidy application will check and format your code using Python style guidelines.

We can zoom in and out of the code, useful when presenting to large groups. A plotter can be used to visualize data via a graph. The Python Shell (REPL, Read, Eval, Print, Loop) is available to test ideas. Large icons and clear text identify the function of each button.
