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And that is why I fear the Raspberry Pi chaps missed the whole point, if they expect the Pi to be the next BBC Micro. Programming back in the day was simple. Fr
by alan_cx 14y ago
And that is why I fear the Raspberry Pi chaps missed the whole point, if they expect the Pi to be the next BBC Micro. Programming back in the day was simple. From that simple beginning you could easily and naturally progress. The problem now is that the entry bar is so damned high.
I mean, I'm 40, been in to computing since I was 8 ish. I even built my own from components on bread boards. Yesterday, I looked at the Torque Engine, I gave up. I couldn't even set it up to use. And I've got a damn degree in Computer Science!!!!!
Heh, I almost think any kid who gets in to development of any kind right now deserves some sort of award.
But, I do think that on the other hand, people should lay off this idea that "everyone" should know it all, and stop giving mere users a hard time for not knowing or wanting to know all the insane abstracts we know.
- DanBC 14y agoIn theory Raspberry PI solves some of the problems that youngsters face. Without RPI: You don't know anything. You go to a tutorial. You have to download some stuff. There are win32, x64, OS X, linux, etc versions. There's python 2.x, 3.x, etc versions. There is pygame etc. And editors. (All of this is sort of fixed by Learn X the hard way). With RPI: Hopefully it's all included in a distro. You can go to the tutorial and just start. What would be useful is some python version of the type-it-in and run it listings that appeared in magazines. I found these particularly useful for learning - especially bugfix afterwards. And then tinkering the software to produce different effects. Starting with something and modifying it was a much easier introduction that just creating it all from scratch.