Raspberry Pi for programming

[iHammmy]

Hello,

 

Firstly, I am unsure whether this is in the right section or not, but oh well... 

 

I was looking through the forums and stumbled upon numerous posts saying that the Raspberry Pi is good to practice programming on. I am unsure as to why this as couldn't you just programme on your main PC? 

 

Any help and examples would be great

 

Thanks in advance,

 

~ Harry

[werto165]

Raspberry Pi is great for little projects, but the main selling point is the price, your PC is so many more times capable than a Raspberry pi.

[Nineshadow]

You can programme on your main PC without a problem.Your PC is  actually way way better.

 

The only reason to do that is if you don't have a computer. The raspberry pi is very very cheap

[ELSknutson]

you can program on your pc but a raspberry pie

can be used as a media PC or all kinds of projects

and the Raspberry pie is just a cheep small PC

[Nuluvius]

The intention is lower level projects. The Pi has GPIO and other easily accessible features. One would not expect to be writing a fully featured n-tier application on the Pi. It's specifications are simply not intended for such an undertaking. One would however expect to write something the deals with IO; interfacing to other hardware; a camera for example or some sensors/telemetry even robotics - it could drive a control loop. Think low level protocol implementation/experimentation.

[Satlen]

Dont, I have one and it is really slow for heavy tasks. I would recommend just using a VM.

[trag1c]

The Pi is pretty great for robotics or automation projects. It's great for learning the ins and outs of robotics but for general programming I would probably just stick with a pc.

[Socratic]

See if you can turn one into a DVR, I'd be interested.

[Rav]

I think you can just programm well in your PC too. No argument that RPi is a great device to explore and you can even make an HTPC using that small boy. But even then, PC is much better. I don't know much about programming, but I think you can use Linux as your programming OS? I'm not sure.  

[kingdorian]

I used "I need it for programmnig" as an excuse to buy one. So I could learn Assembly for ARM but I could also just have used my phone for that....

However raspi is great when you want to do things with servo's or led's or something. But if that is the main purpose I would recommend a arduino.

[DevBlox]

Raspberry Pi is perfect for certain embedded projects, but not all. Those that require video manipulation are great, because Pi's chip is mostly VideoCore GPU, and in a corner a tiny ARM core. So it's great for robots that use cameras and so on, CPU core is sufficienly powerful for an AI. I'm currently working on a 3D DLP printer software project, that GPU is a lifesaver in my case, the CPU wouldn't be able to pull that much data processing at a desireable rate, but i can offload the rendering form it.

 

EDIT: That said, for such projects learning to program is actually more difficult, you need many advanced skills to manage and compile code to be proficient. Better do the learning on your pc.

[iHammmy]

Thanks guys