If you want to try a Scratch-inspired take on microcontroller programming, check out MicroBlocks. It will work with several common boards, including the micro:bit and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Compiled languages are almost always faster, and this is especially relevant in the constrained world of microcontrollers. Or maybe it used to be. I learned to program in an interpreted language ...

Interrupt programming. Hardware/software design tradeoffs ... Instead, they take the form of microcontrollers with a processor, memory, and peripherals all within a single chip. Microcontrollers are ...