Raspberry Pi is a novel, brilliant idea. A cheap $25 computer
that will help re-invigorate people’s (particularly children’s)
interest in computers – the hardware, software and in
programming. You can put free versions of Linux onto it, and
there would be programming packages available too. There’s no
better way to learn about computers than a circuit board that
you can look at and explore – indeed it has a number of ports
for connecting additional circuits too and they readily promote
people trying to expand it’s capabilities further. However, it’s
far more about fixing the UK computer programming situation in
schools, as that could be remedied by simply adding it to the
curriculum (as it is being) and installing the same programming
packages on the schools’ existing PCs. As Raspberry Pi
themselves state… We don’t think that the Raspberry Pi is a fix
to all of the world’s computing issues; we do believe that we
can be a catalyst. We want to see cheap, accessible,
programmable computers everywhere; we activel