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Monday, August 31, 2015

Raspberry Pi in Education

The Raspberry Pi Is Succeeding in Ways Its Makers Almost Imagined

Kids don't want to code. They want to solve problems us oldies can't perceive

Mark Pesce | August 27, 2015


“Grandpa is getting pretty old. Out there all alone on that farm, he has no one to look in on him, just to see if he’s ok. He’ll use the landline, but he’s beyond of the range of mobile, and he’s never been really great with computers. No Skype or emails. Grandpa does have internet. So I built this for him.”
The girl points down to a small box with a few wires coming out.
“I can bring up a web browser, and take photos inside grandpa’s house. Has he moved his coffee cup today? Is the telly on? At least then we’ll know he’s okay. And I can even type messages” - she changes focus to a textbox inside a web form - “that show up on top. We used ImageMagick for that part...here, you can see it in our code.”

Source: https://www.nexttopmakers.com/about-next-top-makers
Fingers fly across the keyboard, and now I’m reading the source code for an index.php page, another marriage of convenience between HTML and PHP. How’d this girl - all of eleven years old - learn to do this?

<more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/27/the_raspberry_pi_is_succeeding_in_ways_its_makers_ialmosti_imagined/; related links: https://www.nexttopmakers.com/about-next-top-makers (About Next Top Makers. [About: The City of New York is committed to supporting entrepreneurs who choose to base and grow their businesses right here. New York's Next Top Makers, brought to you by NYCEDC, is helping to position New York City not only as an entrepreneur-friendly city, but a leader in the new production economy, stimulating the growth of an ecosystem of Makers, designers, creators and manufacturers that is dynamic, sustainable and provides opportunities to all New Yorkers. In its third year, Next Top Makers is expanding opportunities for others to engage in the space by introducing a five part series of community workshops geared at aspiring product entrepreneurs. We are also popping up at our own and other relevant events such as MakerFaire, Northside Festival, and local meetups to get the word out about the program and manufacturing here in New York. Read more about last year's Five Borough Pop Up Tour on the blog.]) and https://www.raspberrypi.org/education/ (Sign up to the Raspberry Pi Foundation Education email newsletter for updates on future Picademy dates, new resources, and competition announcements)>

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