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You’re a (chess) wizard, Bethanie

By recreating the iconic Wizard’s Chess set from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (sorry America, it’s Philosopher , not Sorcerer ), 18-year-old Jambassador Bethanie Fentiman has become my new hero. Ron, you don’t suppose this is going to be like… ‘real’ wizard’s chess, do you?

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Free eBook: Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents, Second Edition (A $14.99 Value) – Geeks are Sexy Technology News

Geeks are Sexy Technology News Free eBook: Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents, Second Edition (A $14.99 Value) Geeks are Sexy Technology News This book is for all the mischievous Raspberry Pi owners who would like to see their computer transformed into a neat spy gadget to be used in a series of practical pranks and projects.

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Python in Education – free e-book from O’Reilly

This week PyCon is going on in Montreal – it’s the big worldwide Python conference – and for the occasion, O’Reilly asked our friend Nicholas Tollervey to write a free short book on Python in Education . Click to download the book for free The book tells the story of Python, why Python is a good language for learning, how its community gives great support, and covers Raspberry Pi as a case study

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Teaching literature with Raspberry Pi

Last week, checking out posts people had made on our Facebook page and the projects they were telling us about, one in particular caught my attention. Sarah Roman , a high school English teacher from New Jersey, had written: Our English class is going to be using the Raspberry Pi in order to build book-based video games, incorporating Scratch, Sonic Pi, and Python. The students are incredibly excited […] There was a link to an Indiegogo campaign ; we love to see Raspberry Pi used creatively outside of computing lessons, so I clicked on it

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Christmas competition – win a B+ and help decorate Pi Towers!

Our intrepid education team spends a lot of the year on the road. In the last six months, Clive, Ben, Carrie Anne, Dave and Rachel have attended more than fifty events on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s behalf

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Adventures in Minecraft

Martin O’Hanlon and David Whale will be familiar to many readers of this blog, whether from the excellent Raspberry Pi and Minecraft resources they’ve authored or from their work with schools, code clubs and Raspberry Jams. Now they’ve teamed up to write a fantastic new book, hot off the press this week. Adventures in Minecraft teaches young people to customise their Minecraft world with amazing structures and new gaming experiences, developing Python programming skills along the way.

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As British as Raspberry Pi? – ComputerworldUK (blog)

As British as Raspberry Pi ? ComputerworldUK (blog) Glyn Moody is a technology writer and blogger for Computerworld UK. He is the author of the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution (2001)

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Adventures in Raspberry Pi kits in the Swag Store

As many of you know, our very own Carrie Anne Philbin spent most of last year writing Adventures in Raspberry Pi . For some reason she keeps reminding me that, with 4.8 stars out of 5, it’s currently the highest-rated Raspberry Pi book on Amazon; I can’t imagine why . Five star, schmive star The last few chapters of the book concentrate on hardware interfacing using the Pi, and require a variety of electronic components.

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