It worked for me. I got a Raspberry Pi when I was 12. I learned the Linux command line on it.
I built doorbells and game sites to use in school. I learned PHP on the thing, my first proper programming language.
Good times. :)
I built doorbells and game sites to use in school. I learned PHP on the thing, my first proper programming language.
Good times. :)
Instead they taught them python on windows.
If the Raspberry Pi had 5V compatible GPIO and SD cards stored data permanently immediately after fsync() returns, the Pi would have been much more successful in the educational environment.
All this to say: kids are just rough on shit. They're inexperienced with potential failure modes and thus fail to anticipate what precautions might need to be taken in trying to avoid them. But they mostly grow up (after killing a few pieces of hardware).
In the right educators hands', the raspberry Pi can be used to bring generations of teenagers into computing competence.
You're only as good a student as your teacher.
It's just a fucking computer, not a world changing thing. They already have computers that don't have all the downsides but do have all of the upsides.
Fix that problem. Don't address it by introducing the kids to useless, proprietary technology.
It's just a fucking computer, not a world changing thing.
This irrational, entirely emotional attitude is also the problem. Its why kids can't code today, but could in the 80's.
Computers are world-changing things. This is why its so vital to teach kids properly and not chintz out on it because "its too hard".
It's not as much _fun_ as making an obvious circuit board do Stuff (tm). There's a very tactile satisfaction about making an RPi or similar go. YMMV, of course
I have an old PC at home still collecting dust (~10 years old I think), I need to clean its storage and get rid of it.