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Introduction to the Raspberry Pi

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The Raspberry Pi (RPi) is a low-cost Linux computer developed with the intention of improving the background of students entering university computer science courses by giving them a good, cheap environment in which to play. And it does! In fact, I’ve got a bunch of colleagues at work, well into middle age, who have leapt upon it to play with. So far their kids haven’t found out, though....

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Newmarch, J. (2017). Introduction to the Raspberry Pi. In: Raspberry Pi GPU Audio Video Programming . Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2472-4_1

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