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Pretty sure the magic is that you turn on the device and you can immediately type code. You can load and run, of course. Those are the first commands, but then
by omarhaneef 5y ago
Pretty sure the magic is that you turn on the device and you can immediately type code.
You can load and run, of course. Those are the first commands, but then you can also try print etc.
If the raspberry pi didn't open into a linux prompt but a python REPL and you used python to load, save, run, I think it would have the same programmer nudge effect that the 80s machines had.
- gmiller123456 5y ago>Pretty sure the magic is that you turn on the device and you can immediately type code. Lots of microcomputers back in the C64's time worked this way. So there's more to it than that. I think it's popularity now is based only on that it was popular in long ago. Why it was so successful long ago, is likely a combination of a lot of factors.
- omarhaneef 5y agoI was unclear: I meant the magic of turning kids into programmers, which I agree was a feature of many (most?) 80s machines. This was in response to the comment I was immediately responding to, and not the article posted.