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Get a Raspberry Pi computer and start working with the educational tools, projects, and languages they support and those built and documented by their community
by oblib 9y ago
Get a Raspberry Pi computer and start working with the educational tools, projects, and languages they support and those built and documented by their community.
You don't need to learn a specific language as much as you need to learn basic concepts to begin with and the Raspberry Pi project offers great resources for that along with language specific resources to play and learn with.
And don't let the "it's for kids" angle put you off. Yes, the project does focus on teaching kids to program and integrate hardware but most of those computers are sold to adults who use them to "hack" and learn and develop on, and yes, we adults use and learn with the same resources "kids" do.
https://www.raspberrypi.org https://www.raspberrypi.org
- jamestimmins 9y agoHow good is Raspberry Pi for understanding systems at a deeper level? I'm a mid-level dev and I've taken computer hardware/systems classes (including the Nand To Tetris course), and have considered diving into Raspberry/Arduino to practice deeper systems level concepts. Can you speak to that at all?
- oblib 9y agoI've not got into system level concepts myself but there's a lot of others who have worked on that. You'll find a lot more info at the Raspberry Pi forums but here is a bit to get you going. This book is co-written by Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation: Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=9aTkDAAAQBAJ&rdid=book-9aTkDAAAQBAJ&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=9aTkDAAAQBAJ&... Mastering the Raspberry Pi: https://books.google.com/books?id=1FUnCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=mastering+the+raspberry+pi&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj97vG1nJLYAhWL7IMKHcu2BfYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=mastering%20the%20raspberry%20pi&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=1FUnCgAAQBAJ&printsec=fron... This is a post in their user forums with links to additional resources: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=72260&sid=bf2b38990b100853ea06f207a59eb609 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=7226...
- jamestimmins 9y agoThis is awesome. I'm excited to dive into these. Thanks very much!