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Re: Raspberry PI
« on: February 29, 2012, 07:08:51 PM »
Hard to go wrong with a £22 computer

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2012, 04:51:42 PM »
Yes, it's an Android tablet without the touchscreen and wifi.  But Android doesn't encourage programming, it encourages surfing.  Yes, you can put a keyboard on it but people psychologically see it as a tablet.  They aren't going to think about programming.  Android isn't designed to be developed on, it's designed to be developed for.

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 02:09:07 PM »
The BBC Micro was introduced three decades ago, a different world.  Kids nowadays have tablets, iPads, iPods, Smart Phones competing for attention. As well as Laptops and game consoles.  But all of this devices are consumer devices.  You buy,beg or borrow software and run it to view the world.  Raspberry PI is designed to teach them to program.  

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 02:46:53 PM »
The one thing that would have been better is to provide an environment for developing Android apps.  I think it would have been fun for kids to develop an app and install it on their phone or their friends phones....
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 04:11:17 PM »
Personally I would waste 20 cents on a netbook, dead end technology, not tablets not notebooks.  They're getting harder to find in stores now too.

But why the hate for a device that is designed to get kids curious about programming.  If it works it's a good thing, if it doesn't, well you've just wasted the cost of an Indian takeaway....
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 02:10:36 PM »
Wow, a seven month delay.  At least it's close to Christmas....

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Yeah, I just received an email from Newark (Premier Farnell) stating my expected ship date in now 6/12 from 4/5.  Crap!  Well, I have many projects on going, I just shall keep myself busy with them for the time being. :)

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2012, 04:31:09 PM »
PDP-1 anyone?
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