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.... from the colour thread....
Farnell have taken my order for the next batch, they're saying I'll get it in may.
I was all excited about the philosophy of the device, get kids programming etc. Exactly like I did starting on a TRS80, through to the BBC B (still my favourite computer) before moving on to PC's when they finally became better than a BBC. Perfect for my 14 year old. But I'm a little let down really, in that it's too slick, basically just a cheap PC, and you're basically running a full OS (although I'll take a look at riscos). From what I've seen the kids programming aspect is a bit point and click wysiwyg stuff, so not quite teaching them to fully grasp logic and loop constructs etc.
I'll have to pull out the pic gear and teach my son how to program in assembler, addressing the hardware directly, like real programmers do !
However based on what I've seen, I still expect to probably buy more than one of the pi, they're so cheap and perfect for embedding into tv's, cars, etc.. Too good to miss really. They even appear to have some general io, not up to the numerous ports the beeb had but it's something I guess.
Farnell have taken my order for the next batch, they're saying I'll get it in may.
I was all excited about the philosophy of the device, get kids programming etc. Exactly like I did starting on a TRS80, through to the BBC B (still my favourite computer) before moving on to PC's when they finally became better than a BBC. Perfect for my 14 year old. But I'm a little let down really, in that it's too slick, basically just a cheap PC, and you're basically running a full OS (although I'll take a look at riscos). From what I've seen the kids programming aspect is a bit point and click wysiwyg stuff, so not quite teaching them to fully grasp logic and loop constructs etc.
I'll have to pull out the pic gear and teach my son how to program in assembler, addressing the hardware directly, like real programmers do !
However based on what I've seen, I still expect to probably buy more than one of the pi, they're so cheap and perfect for embedding into tv's, cars, etc.. Too good to miss really. They even appear to have some general io, not up to the numerous ports the beeb had but it's something I guess.