Sonic Pi – a computing resource for teachers (and all of us!) #RaspberryPi

Just saw this on the Foundation site and wanted to share it with you all as it’s just the kind of educational resource that is vital for the Pi to be used in schools. I think I’ll let the Foundation’s words speak for themselves:

Carrie Anne Philbin, an absolutely inspirational CS teacher of the sort I wish had been around when I was a kid, has been doing a lot of work with the Pi in her lessons over the last year or so. She’s creator of the Geek Gurl Diaries YouTube web series, a Computer Science and ICT teacher, recipient of TalkTalk’s London 2013 Digital Heroes award, and somebody that all of us at Raspberry Pi think very, very highly of. Most recently, Carrie Anne has spent much of the summer working with Dr Sam Aaron at the University of Cambridge on a Key Stage 3 scheme of work for schools, tailored for England’s new programme of study, based around a little something of Sam’s called Sonic Pi.

Sonic Pi is a programming environment that allows you to make sounds. Which is a very dull way of saying that it’s a way to build your own synthesiser from scratch. Sonic Pi, and the associated teaching and learning materials, are open and free.

Read more about this fantastic resource on the Foundation’s site or head on over to the Sonic Pi website directly.

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