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Coding is the future of the British education system – The Boar

Coding is the future of the British education system   The Boar As our society changes, both public bodies and companies are looking to improve the coding skills of the younger generations.

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Raspberry Pi In Consortium to Provide Computer Training to UK Schools – Computer Business Review

Computer Business Review Raspberry Pi In Consortium to Provide Computer Training to UK Schools Computer Business Review “This level of investment is unprecedented anywhere in the world for teacher training in the field of computing and computer science”. The British Computing Society, STEM Learning and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been selected as part of an …

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Raspberry Pi In Consortium to Provide Computer Training to UK … – Computer Business Review

Computer Business Review Raspberry Pi In Consortium to Provide Computer Training to UK … Computer Business Review The British Computing Society, STEM Learning and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been selected as part of a…National Centre for Computing Education. New £84m National Centre to improve teaching of computing and drive participation in computer science New Electronics Stem firms to run UK National Centre for Computing Education ComputerWeekly.com all 4 news articles »

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Community Profile: Dr. Lucy Rogers

This column is from The MagPi issue 58 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition through your letterbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve our charitable goals

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Computing in schools: the report card

Today the Royal Society published After the Reboot , a report card on the state of computing education in UK schools. It’s a serious piece of work, published with lots of accompanying research and data, and well worth a read if you care about these issues (which, if you’re reading this blog, I guess you do)

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The Impact of Ten Million

This column is from The MagPi issue 50 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet.

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Joker: a Raspberry Pi + Python joke machine

Today is a public holiday here in the UK, and Pi Towers is silent and still. Clive’s in a field “with no network (not even mobile),” he specifies, just in case someone were tempted to try and make him do something anyway

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A new board member

Sherry Coutu CBE has been a member of the board of Raspberry Pi Trading for a couple of years now; she’s an exceptionally valuable member of the team, and we’re very grateful to her for donating her time  and expertise to our organisation.

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Penguin Lifelines

We quite frequently get asked about optimum operating temperatures for the Raspberry Pi – frequently enough that this was a very early addition to our FAQs page back in 2012: The Raspberry Pi is built from commercial chips which are qualified to different temperature ranges; the LAN9512 is specified by the manufacturers being qualified from 0°C to 70°C, while the AP is qualified from -40°C to 85°C. You may well find that the board will work outside those temperatures, but we’re not qualifying the board itself to these extremes. And we left it at that.

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Raspberry Pi-powered Dog-to-English translator hits funding goal – Computer Business Review

Metro Raspberry Pi -powered Dog-to-English translator hits funding goal Computer Business Review The 'No More Woof' headset is powered by a Raspberry Pi , and the Scandinavian inventors of the device claim it is able to translate a range of thoughts such as hunger, the need to pee and curiosity. The Scandinavian Nordic Society for Invention and

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