Python in Education

A Pythonic Case Study: Raspberry Pi  |  11

---

uted 

several code projects to the Raspberry Pi foundation

) and treat

teachers as colleagues who generate use cases for them to turn into

working code.

Ultimately, the efforts and good will shown by the Python commu‐

nity have paid off: the Raspberry Pi Foundation has given back to

the community by funding Python-related events, providing resour‐

ces and supporting programming projects such as 

PyPy

, a high-

performance version of Python that runs extraordinarily quickly on

the Raspberry Pi (and other devices).

The future looks bright for the Raspberry Pi. For example, it’s going

to fly with British ESA astronaut Tim Peake to the International

Space Station. British schoolchildren will program the device with

experiments and tasks for Tim to fulfill as part of the 

AstroPi

project

.

I bet you can’t guess the language in which these programs will be

written.