Ask HN: Starting kit for an aspiring software developer

1 points by pbalau 4y ago ↗ HN

Is that time of the year when I have to buy my landlord's kids presents in exchange for him buying me Romanian unhealty food and booze :)

The youngest one, about 11, seems to like robots/computers. I want to get him a starting programming kit of sorts. Myself I started with a ZX Spectrum clone, that came with a booklet with some stuff I could do with the computer. So I was thinking to get him something like a RPI with a keyboard and preinstalled dev environment he can play with. Anything like that?

I don't have lots of time atm to do it myself, thus I'm looking for an already made solution.

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haspoken 4y ago ↗

The Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit looks like it is what you want.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/

And most importantly, these seem available for purchase.

Plus, there is a huge amount of stuff in the way of books and magazines that can be downloaded for free:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/issues

as well as several other magazines and libraries from the same source

pbalau 4y ago ↗

Thank you