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Re:BBC gives children mini-computers in Make it Digital scheme by slimbods on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:40PM (#9192826)
Noobs has included a 'boot to scratch' option for a few years now. My lad of 12 years was given a Pi, and assembled it and was up and running with scratch pretty quickly.
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Re:BBC gives children mini-computers in Make it Digital scheme by Already__Taken on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:20PM (#9193580)
Option though, There just seems to be some maddening aversion to making the defaults do one useful thing. The decision seems so paralyzed by being all things to all people.
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