At the local hackerspace, there was an older man who came along to fiddle around with his Raspberry Pi and learn programming from a book he had bought.<p>He faced a problem one time where his Python program wouldn&#x27;t execute, and I unfortunately had to explain to him what shebang lines do, how to use them, the UNIX executable bit, etc.<p>The Raspberry Pi is indeed not as educational as it is made out to be. It may have been envisioned as a tool for classrooms, but in practice the Pi is just a toy for hackers. It&#x27;s not like it was ever going to do much for the classroom anyway. Instead of spending $40 to teach a kid to program using Linux on a Pi, you could spend $0 to teach them to program using Linux in a virtual machine.