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Raspberry Pi Gets an Open Source Educational Manual

Posted by samzenpus on from the read-all-about-it dept.

Last year a group of UK teachers started working on a Creative Commons licensed teaching manual for the Raspberry Pi. That work has produced the Raspberry Pi Education Manual which is available at the Pi Store or here as a PDF. From Raspberry Pi: "The manual is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 unported licence, which is a complicated way of saying that it’s free for you to download, copy, adapt and use – you just can’t sell it. You’ll find chapters here on Scratch, Python, interfacing, and the command line. There’s a group at Oracle which is currently working with us on a faster Java virtual machine (JVM) for the Pi, and once that work’s done, chapters on Greenfoot and Geogebra will also be made available – we hope that’ll be very soon."

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  1. Khan Academy Lite by mbuimbui · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are looking to get free educational materials on a Raspberry Pi you should check out: http://kalite.adhocsync.com/. Intern Jamie Alexander did a fabulous job getting the entire Khan Academy site including setting up accounts, watching videos, and doing exercise problems working on a Raspberry Pi. You can read about it here: http://jamiealexandre.com/blog/2012/12/12/what-i-did-at-khan-academy-khanberry-pi-ka-lite/

    1. Re:Khan Academy Lite by jamalex · · Score: 4, Informative

      Thanks for the link! We're working on a package to put into the RPi store, to make it even easier -- stay tuned for more soon!

  2. For 8yr+: Scratch, Python and Bash in that order. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The last python chapter is a actually useful with some GPIO stuff with python.
    Just in case anyone else was curious.