Paper Info
Title
Making operating systems more appetizing with the raspberry Pi.
Abstract
In 2012, Ebon Upton started the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which introduced the Raspberry Pi (RPi) as a $35 basic computer. The goal was to reignite public interest in programming and increase enrollment in college computer science. Today, the third RPi iteration features a multicore processor, a small GPU for display graphics, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity. Surprisingly, even though the RPi has become very popular with the public and college students for do-it-yourself projects and maker culture, instructors have not widely used it to teach operating systems concepts. In this paper, I share my experience using the RPi in my Operating Systems class. The paper makes the following contributions: Pedagogical advantages of using the RPi over other traditional and cloud-based methods to teach operating systems concepts Challenges for the instructor and students running many RPis in a classroom setting over the campus enterprise network. Advantages of using the RPi to stimulate student creativity and motivate them to design and implement their own related computing projects.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
Frontiers in Education Conference
operating systems,Raspberry Pi,pedagogy,student motivation and learning
Field
DocType
ISSN
Graphics,Multithreading,Sociology,Work in process,Maker culture,Multi-core processor,Enterprise private network,Bluetooth,Operating system,USB
Conference
0190-5848
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ziad Youssfi100.68