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0 pointsvvanders9y ago0 comments

Yup and Eben Upton did it to teach basics of computer programming and development since he was so frustrated with the state of things in the UK.

I really hate the attitude of the root post that holds open hardware above everything else. RPi has done a ton to help education getting a new generation excited about computers.

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userbinator9y ago· 2 in thread

teach basics of computer programming and development

There are already Arduinos and regular PCs (of which you will find far more documentation on... especially the latter) for that. Why make another closed proprietary system just for teaching? All it will do is make those educated (indoctrinated?) by it think this type of environment should be the norm and encouraged, when there are in fact plenty of better ones.

Even a C64 or a ZX Spectrum would be a better choice than an RPi for teaching.

GFK_of_xmaspast9y ago

> Even a C64 or a ZX Spectrum would be a better choice than an RPi for teaching

This is the strangest opinion I've seen all day. My teen programming years were on a c64 in the late 80s, and in retrospect that was a really tough learning experience (and when I got to college and had access to 'anything else' I never looked back).

Also how was the c64 not a 'closed proprietary system'?

userbinator9y ago

Also how was the c64 not a 'closed proprietary system'?

It's been completely reverse-engineered, emulated, and documented, a lot more than can be said of the SoC in the RPi. Maybe in 30 years the same will happen to the latter, but I'm not too optimistic about that.

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