Great video from the Activate Summit in London. Clive Beale, the Foundation’s director of educational development, talks to the conference about the importance of encouraging young people to explore coding and programming. He uses the Pi as an example of…
Category: Education
Game of Life programming tutorial for the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great tutorial on creating Conway’s Game of Life using Python and Pygame. This is a great idea for schools as it teaches children programming in general, algorithms, a little graphics and has a good, visual result.…
Rescued pet bird gets a #RaspberryPi powered surveillance system
Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully…
#RaspberryPi Foundation and OCR launch online resources for GCSE Computing
Fantastic news from the Foundation today. After months of work, a preview of a ‘Massive Open Online Course’ (MOOC) has been launched for the GCSE Computing qualification. In their words: This MOOC will comprise an enormous suite of short, interactive…
York Raspberry Jam at STEM Centre – nice little article
Steve Lyon reports from the York Raspberry Jam that the purpose of Jams – to bring youngsters and educators together – is alive and well “Up North”. Read the short piece here
#RaspberryPi and RFID together create a toy/game for toddlers
Indonesian programmer Yohanes Nugroho has taken his cue from LeapFrog and created an educational toy for his son. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and a pack of RFID cards to teach the alphabet. Read more about this great project here
Setting up a #RaspberryPi Club
David Whale has written a great piece on his experiences setting up Raspberry Pi clubs in schools. Read it here
Festival of Code in August from Young Rewired State
Young Rewired State, the network for under-18 software developers and designers is running a week-long code workshop and development festival. The Festival of Code runs from 5th to 11th August. From Monday 5th to Thursday 8th coders will gather…
Learning Programming with The Maker’s Box
Ken at The Maker’s Box has written a nice piece about resources that might help you to understand and learn programming skills. Take a look here
A #RaspberryPi lab in rural Ghana
The Foundation has just posted a great story from Ghana. The British School of Brussels has helped to set up a network of 6 Raspberry Pis in a rural location for school kids to use. The biggest issue seems to…