Hi Adam, I put your question to my grandson in Sydney, who has just "retired" from being an Apple "genius"; his reply is below. As he says, I hope it helps.
Regards, Gilly Raspberry pi is a steep learning curve, but it’s designed as an education tool and there are plenty of resources online. The guys at Apple have shared the CODE programme with me, they worked through these exercises: http://studio.code.org/hoc/1 Hope that helps, Michael On 15 Dec 2014, at 20:57, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hope this is ok on SMUG, but hoped some of you might know... > > My 8 year old is mad on computers and games. I know, I know, most children > are, but he is definitely more keen and 'wired that way' than most his > friends. > > Any tips on ways to get him in to something more edifying than the Wii? Is > the Raspberry Pi too complicated a beast? Or is there an iPad App that would > help him. I've googled, but would love any wisdom! > > I sadly missed out on Apple's in store CODE events for children last Saturday. > > Perhaps reply off-list if I'm breaking the SMUG parameters. > > Thanks all > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
