Ask HN: Arduino or Raspberry PI for teenager?

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My nephew, who is 16, wants to do a computer project for his senior year. He wanted to build a computer, but I suggested doing something with a small computer setup like the raspberry pi might be more interesting. What platform and materials would you suggest for a small computer on chip format to a young person with no programming experience?

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If he wants to build the hardware: buy Arduino

If he wants to build the software: buy Raspberry (since the motherboard is already built)

Those are cheap so you could buy all of them :). I would personally recommend the Raspberry Pi because the default OS (wheezy raspbian) contains lot of resources to learn programming as a beginner. If you go on the Arduino way, buy the starter pack, as it contains a "cookbook" with many projects.

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