RE: Some basic presentations on getting started

e14 Contributor — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:26:24 GMT

There are a lot of serious errors and misconceptions in the "getting started" presentation.

For example, slide 3 says:

"With a PC, one has to use software such as Visual Basic to do any programming. This not easy for a newcomer. The Pi in Raspberry Pi refers to Python which is an easy to learn programming language."

One certainly does _not_ have to use Visual Basic to do any programming on a Windows PC.

Python is readily available for the Windows PC.

http://www.python.org/getit/windows/

as is just about every other programming language.

If someone intends to use their computer to do programming,

a PC is a very good platform. It can run both Linux and MS Windows,

and it is many times faster than the RPi, which is a big advantage.

Edited to add:

Eben says:

“This stuff, you could do it on any old PC,” ...

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-50625/l/broadcom-teaches-kids-to-program-in-an-hour-using-raspberry-pi

RE: Some basic presentations on getting started

DAB — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:04:35 GMT

Good simple overview of the RPi and its uses.

Thanks

DAB