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		__alexs on Jan 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's t... One per 3 kids who do the ICT GCSE. Or almost 4 per kid who does A-level Computing. Not too bad I suppose. Hopefully the new Computer Science courses that are coming out will make it a relevant platform to people.

pbhjpbhj on Jan 30, 2013 [–]

I think the idea is to encourage more kids to take up computing (as opposed to ICT). To that end giving them to kids who're already doing A-level computing seems misguided?

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