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Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us

Posted by timothy on from the bootstraps-for-all! dept.

mikejuk writes "The Raspberry Pi might be a cheap and reasonably powerful but it has a tough learning curve due to the Linux OS it uses. Adafruit, better known for their hardware, are working on a WebIDE which you can use to program the Pi without having to set things up. You write the code in a browser and run it on the Pi using a web server hosted by the Pi. It sounds crazy but if it can make the Pi more approachable then perhaps it could turn out to be an educational powerhouse."

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  1. Re:Be nice when they deliver it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If your order is through RS, cancel it immediately and order through Farnell. Farnell actually has their act together.

  2. Re:Set things up? by Microlith · · Score: 5, Informative

    They aren't. The Debian install boots directly into LXDE. The "tough" learning curve is illusory and can easily be overcome in the environment the Pi is used in without suddenly needing two computers rather than one.

  3. Oxymoron by GigaBurglar · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're not prepared to learn Linux then your should be prepared to - give up pursuit of programming embedded/small devices.

  4. Re:Be nice when they deliver it. by neurojab · · Score: 4, Informative

    +1 to the parent.

    RS does not have any Raspberry Pis... Newark/Farnell/Element14 have them. I cancelled my RS order and got it in 4 days from Newwark. Newark is showing 100 in stock right now.