University of Cambridge Offers Free Online Raspberry Pi Course 99
Barence writes "The University of Cambridge has released a free 12-step online course on building a basic operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The course, Baking Pi — Operating Systems Development, was compiled by student Alex Chadwick during a summer interning in the school's computer lab, and has been put online to help this year's new recruits start work with the device. The university has already purchased a Raspberry Pi for every new Computer Science student starting in 2012."
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.... *(mouse, keyboard and large HDMI LCD panel for your room not included)
Also not included: electricity to run the LCD panel, a room to put it in, food and drink to nourish yourself while using the Pi, room heating, toilet paper, organic fair trade coffee with unlimited free refills, jumbo size jar of dill pickles, free haircut, health insurance, manicure, or personal trainer.
Seriously though, if you're being given a free thing, it's a little churlish to complain that you're not being given more free things. Anyone who doesn't want their RasPi can probably sell it to a fellow student who wants an extra one...
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This is supposed to be the best university in the country - why are there people being admitted to its courses who aren't already playing with stuff like this in their spare time as kids?
Because not everyone has the support & background to be already proficient at something before they go to university - this is why we have educational establishments!
It's not like the 80's when consumer computers were geared towards programming, there were languages build-in to the micros and monthly programming magazines. The kids of today have it *far* more convoluted and difficult to get into than I did. In fact, this is the entire reason the Raspberry Pi was created, to bring entry-level programming back.