Raspberry PI

Released in 2011 with the intention of teaching Britain’s Youngsters basic computing knowledge, the raspberry pi is still going strong today. With the raspberry pi being only the size of a credit card and around £20-£25 the idea of a cheap computer to help Children learn programming has become a reality.

Teenagers in Britain are applying for Computer science university courses with very little knowledge about reading and writing in code or programming, this is in contrast to the 90’s where most applicants programmed during spare time. This is what led to the concept and creation of the Raspberry Pi.

There are many things that can be accomplished on the raspberry pi an extremely good example of this is Minecraft Pi edition. Minecraft is a popular indie game that was first released for Pc gamers but soon became available for android and apple phones and also the Xbox 360. With one of the main reasons the pi was created being the ability to teach Children about programming, this port of Minecraft will get them creating and learning programming in no time as Minecraft extremely popular with Children.

Once you have gotten to grips with how Minecraft works you can start to mess about with code and manipulate things within the game world. Martin O’Hanlon who runs a website called stuffaboutcode.com has manipulated the code of Minecraft pi edition to recreate a fully functioning version of the classic game Snake.

For more information about the Raspberry Pi you can visit the site: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Or you can read the free online Magpi magazine which has articles and examples of things to try out on your Raspberry Pi: http://www.themagpi.com/

Sources:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

http://www.themagpi.com/