Introduction
Have you ever considered that you could buy a computer for $35? And no, we’re not talking about an ancient computer from a pawn shop. We’re talking about the Raspberry Pi—a computer board about the size of a credit card. But don’t be fooled by its fragile appearance; it’s much more powerful than it seems.
The Raspberry Pi was developed in the United Kingdom by Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Upton and his colleagues noticed a decline in the skills of students applying to study computer science at the University of Cambridge and realized it was because newer generations of students had grown up with computers that were easy to use. The students never needed to learn how computers really work and didn’t have much ...
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