Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi
Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi


    

    

    

    

    
    By Jason Striegel,
      Creative Technologist, Google Creative Lab
      
      I wrote my first two lines of BASIC as a five year old, and I’ve loved programming ever since.
      These days I’m teaching my own kids to code, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how they could
      have that same simple experience while learning to program for the web.
      
      A quick sprint with my design friend +Jeff
      Baxter led to a little experiment called Coder. It’s an open source tool
      that turns Raspberry Pi into a simple,
      tiny, personal web server and web-based development environment – just what you need for
      crafting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while you’re learning to code. Here’s a quick video that
      helps explain how it all works (and a huge shout out to our friends +Claire
      Stapleton and +Minji
      Hong who helped us with it):
      
      We thought about all the stuff we could do to make Coder a more complete package, but we have
      a hunch that the sooner this gets into the open source and maker communities, the more we’ll
      learn about how it might be used. Hopefully, a few more folks will pitch in and help us make
      this even more accessible and helpful for new coders.
      
      To learn more, visit goo.gl/coder, get a Pi,
      download Coder, and make something awesome.
      
      
      +Jason Striegel tinkers, builds, and
      experiments with cool web stuff at Google Creative Lab.
      
      Posted by Scott Knaster,
      Editor

    
  