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Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
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Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

by Matt Richardson, Shawn Wallace
December 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
176 pages
3h 36m
English
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Preface

It’s easy to understand why people were skeptical of the Raspberry Pi when it was first announced. A credit card-sized computer for $35 seemed like a pipe dream. Which is why, when it started shipping, the Raspberry Pi created a frenzy of excitement.

Demand outstripped supply for months and the waitlists for these mini computers were very long. Besides the price, what is it about the Raspberry Pi that tests the patience of this hardware-hungry mass of people? Before we get into everything that makes the Raspberry Pi so great, let’s talk about its intended audience.

Eben Upton and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge noticed that today’s students applying to study computer science don’t have the skills that they did in the 1990′s. ...

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