Raspberry Pi 3 cluster good for programming newbies

[Mr Robot]

So i'm looking into buying 2 rasberry pi 3s and turning them into a cluster (and later add more pi's) so  i can enhance my programming skills but would that be suitible enough to start with

 

thanks in advance

[SLAYR]

57 minutes ago, Mr Robot said:

So i'm looking into buying 2 rasberry pi 3s and turning them into a cluster (and later add more pi's) so  i can enhance my programming skills but would that be suitible enough to start with

 

thanks in advance

One RPi should be enough if you are just starting to learn how to program, there are also lots of things you can do with the gpio pins as well which may be a better then just more RPis, unless you are wanting to build supercomputers.

[riklaunim]

What programming skills do you have in mind? It will be just few devices available over network. It won't be anything special like Intel Xeon Phi, Paralella or OpenCL/CUDA GPU computation - for parallel and alike programming. For normal programming remote single board computer won't be anything useful as you would have to setup remove environment with slower execution, or make the SBC a desktop to program directly on it. For IoT/GPIO it's a different story - but clusters aren't needed for that and there are various options available.