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."
Re:Free Rapberry Pi *... (Score:0, Interesting)
Somebody used a Raspberry Pi - let's post a story! Somebody used a Raspberry Pi while wearing a tie - let's post a story! Somebody used a Raspberry Pi while wearing a tie and his laces were undone - let's post a story! Somebody used a Raspberry Pi who ate eggs for breakfast that day - let's post a story!
Sure, the Pi is neat. It'll be nice to see the tiny, increasingly useful/powerful and increasingly cheap computers the future will bring us. All of that is great!
But am I the ONLY ONE who just doesn't think the Raspberry Pi is THIS interesting? We don't really need an up-to-the-minute play-by-play concerning every detail of it and every detail of how someone decided to use it.
Some things our editors are real suckers for: IP lawsuits, random yahoos disparaging Open Source (that we'd never know about if you didn't give them the publicity), new Apple products, new Apple policies, Google press releases poorly disguised as news, book reviews that read like publishers' advertisements, and The Cloud.
Do they have a course on how to order one... (Score:3, Interesting)
And actually get it delivered to you? I ordered mine back in mid June, and I'm STILL waiting for it.
Latest ETA was late September.
Re:"operating system" (Score:4, Interesting)
Ever try to write an OS? In assembler? I did. Got as far as memory management before I gave up. I had a text graphics driver and all too. The device may be simple. Programming it and what can be done with it is not. All you need is imagination. And move them to a C compiler fast. Assembly gets hectic too quickly. Sure minuet did it, but those guys are certifiably insane. My kind of insane, but insane nevertheless...