Article on the school website1:
Congratulations to George Harris of DV7 in Year 11 for winning 12 Raspberry Pi programmable computer devices. and many thanks for his generous donation of eight machines to the school George was able to create a poster promoting the use of the devices, and to write a program for them in Python programming language. George has already written a further program which allows him to use the device as a music server in his house.
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. Portchester School is already in the forefront of the new government initiative to teach coding to students, with Years 7 and 8 currently involved in games writing using Scratch and problem solving using a variety of programming languages. Next year we expect to see a move into Java programming so students can learn how to write phone apps.
That is also my old school of course. They seem to have moved on from the one shared BBC Micro for the whole school.
George is particularly pleased with the photo they used... Good work though, clever boy, doesn't sound like there will be one spare for his favourite uncle though, the shame!
Is it right they pluralized Raspberry Pi like that? Maybe it should be Raspberries Pi.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
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