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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. Raspberry shills? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So who's approving all these Raspberry Pi stories? I can understand all the tiresome Google, Apple, M$, not-so-GNU/Linux stories submitted by fanboys, shills, and haters of each company or platform. For the life of me, I can't understand what's all this fuzz about something that's even less successful the late, unlamanted OLPC. And nobody seems to want to read them. Comments typically go > 100. Hell, my troll will probably receive the most comments from people trying to explain why the Raspberry isn't worth a raspberry.

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