The Raspberry Pi single-board computer will revolutionise computer science teaching

摘要

The rasberry Pi's inventors and manufacturers - or at least their PR people - seem to be claiming that this new singleboard device will revolutionise the way pupils learn about computing, programming and technology at school. Their whole idea is this: these days consumer technology comes in neatly packaged so-called black boxes that we simply switch on and expect miraculously to work. The Raspberry Pi people worry that if technology is just something fashionable that kids can take out of a box and plug in, we won't have a fundamental understanding of what's going on under the bonnet.