Reddit reviews Adventures In Raspberry Pi

Parenting done right, my friend. Looks like your kiddo is a little young for it, but my 8 year-old daughter and I are going through [Carrie Ann Philbin's excellent book] (http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Raspberry-Carrie-Anne-Philbin/dp/1118751256)

The book is very approachable for the young ones and has a lot of solid hardware explanations. 10/10 would buy again.

1. Get a model B+. The biggest improvement as far as a novice user is concerned is that it has 4 USB ports. The model B only had 2, so if you wanted to plug in something like mouse + keyboard + WiFi dongle + webcam, you'd need an external powered USB hub. So the B+ is well worth it just for that.
   
   
2. Don't feel bad - you're right that a lot of the blog posts/tutorials you can find online are written for people who already understand Linux and electronics, so will be full of jargon that you don't understand. For example, many people will point you to the elinux.org wiki in the sidebar - but IMO that isn't well-written for beginners, so it isn't a good starting point.
   
   There are definitely some completely beginner-friendly resources out there. Many of them have a series of lessons you can follow one at a time. Typical "beginner" tutorials will start you off with something very simple, like blinking an LED. Then you learn how to use a button press to toggle an LED on and off. This gets you familiar with the very basics of inputs and outputs, and then you can start doing more complicated projects.
   
   Here are four YouTube channels with good tutorial videos (they were linked to from the official announcement of the Model B+, so you know they're legit):
   
   

• RaspberryPiIVBeginners (particularly check out the series of "Raspberry Pi - GPIO & Python" videos here)
  
• The Raspberry Pi Guy
  
• Raspi.TV
  
• Geek Gurl Diaries
  
  If you don't mind spending money, I definitely recommend this book:
  
  
• Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
  
  This book is written for kids, but it's just as useful to a novice adult:
  
  
• Adventures in Raspberry Pi
  
  I haven't looked through any of these in detail yet, but there are a bunch of resources on the official website (and ideally, since their original mission was K-12 education, these will be written for beginners):
  
  http://www.raspberrypi.org/resources/learn/
  
  Anyway - I'd probably recommend starting out with the "blink an LED, push a button" route, but it's up to you. Browse through the tutorials and see if there's something that really catches your eye. If you have trouble understanding something, feel free to message me (I work in science education so I'm used to explaining stuff like this), or just make a new post in this sub. Generally, if you've at least tried to figure it out on your own/have done your homework and can write an articulate post like you've done here, you'll get some helpful responses (as opposed to "hey guyz i don't understand/know what to do with a raspberry pi what should i do", in which case people will usually tell you to go Google it).

Raspberry pi 3 official kit price is 98.33£ Ex taxes. (http://www.thepilocator.com/Product/Info/official-raspberry-pi-foundation-starter-kit-pi-3-mmp) The price is stable since July 2017 and never changed during this period.

In the next following lines i wrote components of the kit and the price Excluding Taxes:

Raspberry Pi 3 B Computer Board - 26.66£ ( http://www.thepilocator.com/Product/Info/raspberry-pi-3---model-b-mmp )

8GB Micro-SD card with operating system - New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS) - Estimating 7.50£ (But this may depend, atm, with this price you can easily get 16GB MicroSdCard http://www.thepilocator.com/Product/Info/noobs-preinstalled-micro-sd-card-tph )

Official Raspberry Pi Red & White Case - 4.99£ ( http://www.thepilocator.com/Product/Info/official-raspberry-pi-3-case---whitered-tph )

Official Raspberry Pi USB Keyboard - Not available singularly in the market, Estimating 10£ using another keyboard available on the market

Official Raspberry Pi USB Mouse - Not available singularly in the market, Estimating 5£ using another mouse available on the market

Official Raspberry Pi HDMI Cable - 4.17£ ( http://www.thepilocator.com/Product/Info/official-raspberry-pi-hdmi-to-hdmi-cable-1m-black-mmp )

Official Raspberry Pi USB Power Supply - 5.83£ (http://www.thepilocator.com/Product/Info/official-raspberry-pi-3-universal-power-supply-tph)

Adventures in Raspberry Pi book by Carrie-Anne Philbin - 2.10£ (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Raspberry-Carrie-Anne-Philbin/dp/1118751256)

Total: 66.25£ Ex Tax.

So, if you buy things singularly you'll be able to save 32.08£ .

Note:

1. If you buy from multiple stores you'll have to pay multiple shippings.
   
   
2. Mouse and keyboards are not the "Official" one, this means that probably you'll have to add some more money if you would like to have the same result.