27 May
2016
27 May
'16
3:15 p.m.
On May 27, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Jay West <jwest at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
At the risk of being flamed... I'll mention that if the kid is more visually driven,
you might try introducing him to an Arduino Uno or similar. Something he can see the
results of his code in lights and dials.
And ultimately, the whole purpose of the RPi was for this sort of education. There are
lots of Pi-based kits out there created for this very purpose. E.g.:
https://www.adafruit.com/products/955
https://www.adafruit.com/products/1538
https://www.adafruit.com/products/3058
http://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-3-ultimate-kit.html
raspberrypi.org has tons of material aimed at that age group, both software and hardware
hacking.
For Arduino:
http://www.canakit.com/arduino-professional-kit.html
http://www.canakit.com/sparkfun-inventor-s-kit-for-arduino-with-retail-case…
With Arduino, you need a separate host computer to write/download the code on/from. But
the Arduino kits are much more oriented towards physical interfaces, and I defy you to
introduce me to an eight-year-old who doesn't want to build robots! :-)