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Questions tagged [teaching]

The teaching tag is for questions about the best practices when teaching students about important computing concepts via the Raspberry Pi.

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Where can I find existing projects with instructions?

There are several articles with suggestions what to do with a Raspberry Pi but many of them are only ideas without any instructions. Is there a directory of projects that actually have been realized with list of required parts and steps how to do…
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Is there a central resource for project ideas?

Is there a community-accepted space that people are submitting their finished projects (for example, Ben Heck's BBC Micro mod, The SNESDev-RPi, etc.)? How-tos would be nice, but not required. For enterprising hackers that are looking to borrow…
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Is the Raspberry Pi a good teaching tool for students learning assembler?

When I took an assembler course, we used a NIOS II Altera board which had a display, some LED lights and programmable buttons. One of the more useful exercises was to write a binary calculator using the LEDs' and the buttons. So, here's my…
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Is there a collection of teaching materials?

Is there anywhere that I can find a collection of teaching materials for the Raspberry Pi? I would hope this could include details such as: Flashing the SD card. Installing the basic OS. Programming the GPIO. Software recommendations for teaching…
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PI Demo to prospective college students

My college has just bought a PI and we are having an Open Day. I have a few hours free over the next week to set up a 20-30 minute demo to show its capabilities. Note: visitors will be school leavers. It would be nice to let people use a single PI…
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DHT11 or GPIO Library to Use in C

I am teaching a child C programming with the RPi using a project with the DHT 11. I'm coming from Python and Node on the RPi but haven't done I/O on the RPi in C. What are some available libraries we could use, where would I find them, and what are…
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