The recent report by the UK Government that learning IT (or ICT - Information & Communications Technology) in schools was boring and focused mainly on teaching students how to use Microsoft Office has been swiftly followed up with a solution.
The solution is a £26 computer designed to encourage students to learn how to program them. It's called the 'Raspberry Pi' and it is designed to start students off in the world of programming which I remember helping my brother with in the early '80s.
My brother was the techie. I was the one reading out the code from a magazine while he typed it into his home made computer, made up from parts he had bought from a catalogue. My brother went on to university to take a degree in microelectronics and then went into industry where he ended designing mobile phone software.
Since then, things changed making it increasingly difficult for young techies to learn software programming and many students of computer science arrive at university not knowing the basics.
The Raspberry Pi computer could have a dramatic impact on the 'grass roots' of Britain's software industry.
See the BBC video below to learn more about.
The solution is a £26 computer designed to encourage students to learn how to program them. It's called the 'Raspberry Pi' and it is designed to start students off in the world of programming which I remember helping my brother with in the early '80s.
My brother was the techie. I was the one reading out the code from a magazine while he typed it into his home made computer, made up from parts he had bought from a catalogue. My brother went on to university to take a degree in microelectronics and then went into industry where he ended designing mobile phone software.
Since then, things changed making it increasingly difficult for young techies to learn software programming and many students of computer science arrive at university not knowing the basics.
The Raspberry Pi computer could have a dramatic impact on the 'grass roots' of Britain's software industry.
See the BBC video below to learn more about.
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