This weekly edition showcases software for the Raspberry Pi 4 that teaches young people how to use a computer. Basic computing skills and beyond.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Dart
Dart is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, class defined, garbage-collected, scripting language using a C-style syntax that can transcompile into JavaScript. Here’s our recommended free tutorials.
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Linux at Home: Plan your Ideal Garden with Linux
In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged, safeguarding our physical, mental and emotional health.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Firefox Revisited – Week 26
I’m a big fan of Firefox. But I’ve been disappointed with the performance of this web browser on the Raspberry Pi 4. Does the latest version in the Raspbian repositories change my opinion?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Elixir
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Here’s our recommended tutorials to master this language.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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Linux at Home: Cooking with Linux
Home cooking is an activity that’s great for individuals as well as families, where we can teach our children the joy of creating freshly cooked home food.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Taking Notes – Week 25
Turn the Raspberry Pi 4 into a low power writing machine. Capture thoughts, ideas, to-do lists, and lots more with these notes applications.
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Introduction to R and RStudio for Data Science
This is a short introductory training session on the use of R in data science.
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4 Excellent Free Books to Learn Tcl
Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a dynamic programming/scripting language based on concepts of Lisp, C, and Unix shells. Here’s our recommended free Tcl books
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn LaTeX
LaTeX is a professional document preparation system and document markup language written by Leslie Lamport. It’s a very mature system with development starting more than 30 years ago. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn LaTeX.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Educational Games for Kids – Week 24
With so many young children currently unable to follow their usual routine of going to school, playing with friends, and undertaking many hobbies, it’s vital to keep them happy and learning.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a very succinct programming language that transcompiles into JavaScript, so there is no interpretation at runtime.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn BASIC
BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. Here’s our recommended free tutorials to learn BASIC.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Racket
Racket is a general-purpose, object-oriented, multi-paradigm, functional, imperative, logic based programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp.
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Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal
Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Awk
Awk is small, fast, simple, and has a clean comprehensible C-like input language. It has robust programming constructs. Here’s our recommended tutorials.
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