The Raspberry Pi Experience
We used raspberry pi on marking period 2 and 3 in computer graphics class. We set up the raspberry pi and started two projects. My first project was to install an astronaut reaction time game. I simply followed the instructions on the raspberry pi official website. However my second project was different from the first one. I installed wordpress on raspberry pi and it was not simple as the astronaut game. I struggled to figure out what I was doing and what I should do. The second project taught me a lot of things about computer and programming.
I did not need any hardware to install WordPress except the Raspberry Pi.
However I installed an operating system. I installed NOOBS. NOOBS is an easy operating system installer which contains Raspbian. It also provides a selection of alternative operating systems which are then downloaded from the internet and installed.
- Using a computer with an SD card reader, visit https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/ .
- Click on the Download ZIP button under ‘NOOBS (offline and network install)’, and select a folder to save it to.
- Extract the files from the zip.
Differences between standard OS and operating system is that NOOBS is very easy to install and you can manage the source on SD card.
Programming language on raspberry pi
Scratch:Scratch is an entry-level programming language that comes as standard with the Raspberry Pi distribution, Raspbian.
JavaScript: JavaScript is a scripting language that works alongside HTML to add interactivity to websites.
