[GLLUG] This is what I want a Raspberry Pi for - my youngest kid is 11

[STeve Andre']

This is most cool!  I will point out however, that $50 can buy a used Dell
that will run circles around this unit, with the possible exception of
graphics.  Take some Linux or BSD to put on it and expose the kid to a
non-windows os, and then the snake wrangling begins. ;-)  With that
you have more storage, etc.

Used lower end hardware is so cheap these days that it's close to free.
At the Recyclerama event in Lansing last week, I saw dozens of Dells
and things that would have been ripe for exactly this.  *sigh*

--STeve Andre'

On 04/21/12 20:39, Don Bosman wrote:
>
>
>     Snake Wrangling for Kids
>
> http://www.briggs.net.nz/snake-wrangling-for-kids.html
>
> Learning to Program with Python.
>
> Copyright (C) 2007. All Rights Reserved.
>
> "Snake Wrangling for Kids" is a printable electronic book, for 
> children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer 
> programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the 
> Python <http://www.python.org> 3 programming language to teach the 
> concepts.
>
> There are 3 different versions of the book (one for Mac, one for Linux 
> and one for Windows), and the printable 1.4MB PDFs can be downloaded 
> from the Google Code project for free (zipped size is about 1MB):
>
> http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list
>
> There have been over 40,000 downloads, as of early 2012.
>
> NOTE: If you want to use Python 2, download version 0.7.2 
> <http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list?can=2&q=0.7.2&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount>. 
> Please note: this is a self-edited (obviously unpublished) manuscript 
> (with help/feedback from the Python community), and as such may not be 
> quite as polished as I would like. Feedback is welcome, and I'll 
> update the book whenever necessary. If your kids are having trouble 
> understanding something, please let me know, and I'll use the feedback 
> to hopefully make improvements.
>
> The original combined version (including all 3 operating systems) of 
> the book can still be found here 
> <http://code.google.com/p/swfk/downloads/list?can=4&q=&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount>.
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