Just think about a Raspberry Pi costing less than a new pair of jeans! Today I read through an article in the Guardian which I believe is very true and offers a real opportunity for Linux as a whole, and aspecially for Ubuntu.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/why-kids-should-be-taught-code http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/why-kids-should-be-taught-code /There will be lots of interesting discussions about the key concepts that students will need to understand, but here's one possible list for starters. Kids need to know about: algorithms (the mathematical recipes that make up programs); cryptography (how confidential information is protected on the net); machine intelligence (how services such as YouTube, NetFlix, Google and Amazon predict your preferences); computational biology (how the genetic code works); search (how we find needles in a billion haystacks); recursion (a method where the solution to a problem depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem); and heuristics (experience-based techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery)./ It still seems far away, but it could be heading our way @ lightspeed. Anyone already played with it: http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Still waiting to get one in my hands, patiently. Lots of ubuntu to all! Bill -- View this message in context: http://ubuntu-be.3354669.n2.nabble.com/Reach-out-to-the-kids-tp7426293p7426293.html Sent from the Ubuntu-be mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
