Re:Raspberry Pi computer in action
by slantyyz on Saturday April 14, 2012 @12:36PM
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The BBC video is great. It reminds me of learning Microsoft "Extended Basic" on a Tandy Color Computer (aka, the CoCo) with a TV as a monitor around 1982-83.
Except back in the day, I had to deal with cassette tapes and only 4K (subsequently upgraded to 16K) of RAM.
30 years ago, I learned code by typing in hundreds of lines of (sometimes buggy) BASIC source code found in print magazines that came out only once a month. Today, all a youngster needs to do is a pull (and in just about any programming language) from Github. Progress is amazing!
Except back in the day, I had to deal with cassette tapes and only 4K (subsequently upgraded to 16K) of RAM.
30 years ago, I learned code by typing in hundreds of lines of (sometimes buggy) BASIC source code found in print magazines that came out only once a month. Today, all a youngster needs to do is a pull (and in just about any programming language) from Github. Progress is amazing!