Total unadulterated bullshit.
My first post (perhaps this was a grave mistake), I gave a concise rundown of all of the problems that I had during the process of provisioning the thing and explained my dissatisfaction. I was not rude or condescending. In fact I asked for suggestions and offered improvement advice. Perhaps advice (from someone who's being working in the embedded systems sector for 20 years isn't real advice?). If I'd bought a MacBook Pro and it had the same functional problems, I'd say the same things about it. If I bought a vacuum cleaner that didn't work, I'd say the same things about it.
One of the problems was that the thing wouldn't output on composite at all (we didn't have a device handy that took HDMI in) and that I complained about the fact you have to poke keys in the dark to configure video (no video output) when you don't know if the hub or keyboard is working properly. Then that started the whole process of hoop jumping to get Linux running on it. Perhaps you remember me now?
I had about 4 replies to my comment, two of which were backing up my claims and one which was actually helpful.
Then the next thing I know, I went to reply to the post by someone trying to be helpful to say thanks and bang, no account. That's poor moderation and trying to hide dissatisfaction and criticism which is not acceptable. That's entirey your problem as a moderator.
Well lack of use in their case is that they don't have the time to do the hoop jumping when it's pretty easy to fire up a python interpreter from an MSI package on a windows machine to get the same results. I thoroughly approve of this; the first experience of proper computer science education shouldn't be hoop jumping and trying to work out how to get the thing working. Much like the BBC Micro, it should be plug it in, turn it on and open the User Guide.
90% of people fall at the first hurdle and you made it a very high one.
In absolutely no way would I recommend it to them.
Now I'm going to take a stab: The Picademy thing sounds much like the old school "big vendor" sales approach. Come see our products and you'll buy and market them for us. Sorry but no banana. I can't recommend the Raspberry Pi in any way and would not enable any promotion of them.