Thursday, May 3, 2012

A new Computer for just $35 & the benefits to Students

Raspberry Pi -  The Cheapest Computer Ever! Amazing Invention, Great Breakthrough!

Rasberry Pi is a GNU/Linux based computer no larger than a mobile phone. with size and pricing on it's side it's real benefits will be to students to have easy access to explore how a computer really works, allowing students to discover computing at the grass roots.


Here’s Pete from RS talking about the Raspberry Pi’s potential in education. 


The Raspberry Pi Foundation that the following languages will be available on the educational launch SD card in a few months. There are hundreds of other languages and systems, but these will be enough to give Raspberry Pi users an experience of computer science.
* Scratch
* Python 3 (including PyGame, PyQt4 and similar libraries)
* Greenfoot
* Geogebra
* Java
* and C/C++ (naturally)

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