PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED?
Would you like your child to be satisfied with some offered off the peg innovation or you would rather help them to be familiar with something offered by a medium which your child will have the ability to exploit on offer? Modern technology is helping new generation to enjoy the benefits with the blessing of modern tools. For example; retrieving information or doing digital computing in a handheld device as big as a credit card which is a mini-computer itself. And if this minicomputer can run software to program this computer by a young child to get them used to with computer science and basic programming, then will you have the audacity to take it? Yes, Raspberry Pi is the minicomputer developed by Raspberry Pi Foundation in UK.
Raspberry Pi is a single board minicomputer intended for children in order to inspire them about computing and let them bring digital world to their physical world. The aim was set to “put the fun back into learning computing”. It is a single board 85.60 × 53.98 mm (3.370 × 2.125 in) computer with a 700 MHz ARM processor, one USB port in Model A and two USB port in Model B so that you connect other USB based hardware. Besides that, this device also has the capability to connect with the internet. For Model A, consumer can use an USB wi-fi adapter to get connected with internet and for Model B, Raspberry Pi has a 10/100 Ethernet controller. It has 256 MB memory shared with GPU which is going to be a high profile video decoder as well. A Linux based distribution will be used as an operating system. Debian GNU. Calligra Suite and Python are going to be bundled with raspberry Pi. SD, MMC, SDIO cards can be used as storage device. The first sold devices are intended for developers to develop software which can be used by people specially children to write their own programs as the whole purpose beyond developing this computer was to stimulate children about learning computing. Since it is price consuming ($25-$35) everyone can have this minicomputer in school and they can write their own programming and learn how to control computer at an early age. A Cambridge-based engineer Upton, who brought up the idea of Raspberry Pi said, “What was needed was a return to an exciting, programmable machine like the old BBC Micro; and it had to be affordable, say around £20, so every child could potentially have one.” Therefore, as a part of the modern society and as a sincere human, wouldn’t you prefer to let your child have this technically ‘scrumptious’ Raspberry Pi for programming his own computer?
source: http://www.raspberrypi.org
Well, the good new is that the software package is developed in Seneca College, so excited isn't it? And it is Linux based, therefore we can use shell command in it, can't wait to get one and try it out.
回复删除I think in the future, all of the university and college will have these software package. It will be much useful for the student to "put fhe fun back into learning"
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Yeah, you are right Eric. I think U of T need to promote this kind of device to its own students, since it is Linux based OS, it can help us to get more familiar with the Linux shell programming, and some other shell operations. To have a decent knowledge on shell and Linux based environment is really fundamental and important for computer science learner. Because most likely in the future career, we are going to work in the Linux or Unix base Operating System instead of Windows, and having a good knowledge on shell can really increase our productivity.
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