On May 1, 1964, Professor John Kemeny ran the first BASIC program from a timesharing terminal at Dartmouth College, and ushered in a new era in accessible programming. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, BASIC tended to be the first language that children of my generation came across; despite well-known claims to the contrary , many of us are doing just fine. We’ve got a few goodies to help get you in the party mood.
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Celebrating 50 years of BASIC
We think Craig Richardson’s brilliant. His Python Programming for Raspberry Pi book (available as a free download) remains one of the very best tools for stealthily teaching rigorous and useful computing concepts and programming tricks to kids that we’ve seen.
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Minecraft Pi recipe cards to download and keep
Judging panel announces PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition winners ComputerWeekly.com Winners of the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition have been announced, the judging panel crowning schoolchildren and undergraduates teams for their innovative ideas. Announced at the Science Museum, groups presented their programming
Dave “Davespice” Honess, one of our indefatigable forum mods (a crack team of men and women with darting eyes who never sleep, spending their downtime making sure our forums are a welcoming place for new users, and a really crappy place for people who want to spam or start flamewars), has been working on porting games to the Pi. His most recent addition to the Pi Store is Cave Story , a side-scrolling freeware platformer with a distinctly retro look and feel. I’d been chatting to Dave about why he’d chosen Cave Story to work on, and what he said was really worth sharing, so I asked him if he’d mind writing a few words for the blog about it
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Cave Story
Apologies for the late post today—I started playing about with Coder this afternoon and kind of got side tracked for four hours because it’s quite wonderful. (By ‘playing’ of course I mean carrying out an Educational Evaluative Assessment.) Coder turns your Raspberry Pi into a mini web server that allows you to create web content using HTML, CSS and JavaScript via a browser-based IDE.
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Google Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi
Product Reviews PA Consulting Group launches second national Raspberry Pi computer …
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PA Consulting Group launches second national Raspberry Pi computer … – Cambridge Network
You may be familiar with the Raspberry Pi recipe cards that we developed with the exam board OCR.
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OCR Raspberry Pi recipe card competition — win stuff just by thinking!
Our very own Matthew Bennett talks about the last two years with Raspberry Pi and his recent educational workshop on “Excitement in Computer Programming”.
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Guest Blog #4: Excitement in Computer Programming
Full disclosure: I wasn’t watching TV last night. I was sitting in the garden with a glass of cider and a pizza, watching swallows eat mosquitos and cheering them on.
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Raspberry Ripple ice cream on the Gadget Show
We’ve been very keen to see schools set up high altitude ballooning (HAB) projects with the Pi.
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High Altitude Ballooning, sixth-form style