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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Julia Kollewe

HISTORICAL FACTS: Raspberry pi how push for child programming skills inspired a coding generation | History Defined

a child and an adult use a computer in a learning workshop; the young girl, who wears a bright red sweatshirt, is seen in front of a computer attached to a bright green screen as a man in a striped hoodie looks on. Other screens and people are partly seen in the foreground and background.
Parents and children during a Raspberry Pi workshop in 2019. Photograph: Mark Hawkins/Alamy

Raspberry Pi, whose popular minicomputers are sold around the world, has come a long way since its co-founder Jack Lang had to store some of the first batch of single-board devices in his garage more than a decade ago.

What started out as a project to reverse the decline in computer science applications at Cambridge University went on to inspire a generation of child programmers by offering them an affordable $35 (£28) minicomputer. Now the company is preparing to list on the London Stock Exchange.

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