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The Pi is an excellent environment for learning to program - I love how it puts programming front and center. I imagine many poor kids couldn't do much with it
by tdeck 5y ago
The Pi is an excellent environment for learning to program - I love how it puts programming front and center. I imagine many poor kids couldn't do much with it until they got a keyboard, mouse, and monitor from the school as well. Some of these items can easily be found for free but perhaps not as much in poor neighborhoods.
- smtibor 5y agoIt's really tough in a lot of places. The good news is that there are some new Pis that address that. For example, the Raspberry PI 400 looks like it could be a great way to get a computer in front of a student and all they need is a TV or monitor. (just like an old Commodore 64 or Apple II like I first fell in love with) There are some amazing after school programs that are trying to address the uneven distribution of resources in computer science education, but we definitely need a more comprehensive approach in the US.
- tdeck 5y agoI have a Pi 400. It's a lot of fun but it's also $100 - a big jump up from $10. Also it's not really intuitive to navigate Raspbian without a mouse as a beginner, although mice are dirt cheap.