Friday July 26th connecting worlds of hardware and software. RaspberryPi was invented to give youngsters a computer to experiment with. It kind of took of in a zillion directions after its launch February 29th last year. But its roots are educational, the default software Raspbian ships with Scratch positioned prominently. And the first employee of the foundation is Clive Beale who is responsible for educational development. The following video starts with Clive introducing himself.
The first European conference on Scratch will be held July 25-27 in Barcelona. Educators, researchers, developers and other members of the worldwide Scratch community are gathering to celebrate and share the creative possibilities of Scratch. If you're interested in learning to program and programming to learn, join us!