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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by blowski on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:47AM (#37686993)
I have about 10 unused Raspberry Pis, so I collected unused monitors as well, and now run a mini code club in my local school. The school's laptops are all locked down to the point that running Python on them that this was the easiest way to provide a Python dev environment.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by walteweiss on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:43AM (#37687726)
Why does everyone choose Python for that? Maybe a weird question for HN, but I still have no idea.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by blowski on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:06AM (#37687909)
In my case at least, it's because Python has a strong ecosystem. Everybody's heard of it - parents, kids, and teachers. There are lots of good kid-friendly education materials.

Of course, that begs the question "how did that ecosystem develop in the first place?", but I can't answer that.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by qwertox on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:06PM (#37693327)
It's so easy to get started and it goes a long way. From "input your name" over servers to machine learning.

It's a very clean language.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by cdt5050 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:25AM (#37714140)
It doesn't require a person to change how they think about programming from their college C or Java classes, but is a lot simpler than those two languages.
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