T
oday's kids are proficient computer users but usually know little about what's happening under the hood. The Raspberry Pi, a $25 computer the size of a credit card, is my attempt to fix this problem—and to create a new generation of engineers.
I bought my first computer in 1989 at the age of 11. It was a BBC Micro "Model B" with 32 kilobytes of RAM and a two-megahertz 6502 processor, and I bought it with games and schoolwork in mind. But in common with many in my generation, I found myself using it to write simple programs and got my first experience of engineering. When I arrived at the University of Cambridge to study computer science in 1996, I found myself surrounded by people who had been exposed to the same sort of computing environment.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Incubating Programmers - Technology Review
