> On May 27, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Jay West <[email protected]> wrote: > > At the risk of being flamed... I'll mention that if the kid is more visually > driven, you might try introducing him to an Arduino Uno or similar. Something > he can see the results of his code in lights and dials.
And ultimately, the whole purpose of the RPi was for this sort of education. There are lots of Pi-based kits out there created for this very purpose. E.g.: https://www.adafruit.com/products/955 https://www.adafruit.com/products/1538 https://www.adafruit.com/products/3058 http://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-3-ultimate-kit.html raspberrypi.org has tons of material aimed at that age group, both software and hardware hacking. For Arduino: http://www.canakit.com/arduino-professional-kit.html http://www.canakit.com/sparkfun-inventor-s-kit-for-arduino-with-retail-case.html With Arduino, you need a separate host computer to write/download the code on/from. But the Arduino kits are much more oriented towards physical interfaces, and I defy you to introduce me to an eight-year-old who doesn't want to build robots! :-)
