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<\/a>ly and when I could get my hands on it, personal use. This educational computer was developed to\u00a0support the \u00a0BBC’s “Computer Literacy” Project which was\u00a0 closely integrated with school curriculums. It is widely accepted that it spawned a whole new generation of engineers and computer scientists including members of my own family.<\/p>\nWebservers \u00a0and The Internet<\/h2>\n
With the help of my son, my continuous learning moved over to installing my in house Apache Webserver on an old computer and\u00a0learning the evolving internet languages and webserver server side software like Linux,\u00a0PHP and MySQL \u00a0and onwards to developing hard coded websites.<\/p>\n
Computers In Business<\/h2>\n
After leaving Academia for a career in the Chemical Industry, I became interested and pioneered together with our partner ” Baytouch <\/a>\u00a0the use of networked\u00a0computers to improve both operational efficiency and to police complex ” Management Systems” using bespoke applications over\u00a0an\u00a0 in house \u00a0intranet. A task which was greatly facilitated by the rapidly growing use of windows based desktop computers to improve business efficiency. This approach is now in use by a number of International Companies.<\/p>\n Today in addition to my objective of becoming \u00a0au fait with the new Content Management Systems I have just purchased several Raspberry Pi\u00a0 computers which are a significant improvement on the earlier versions. Much faster and lower power consumption. My older Pi now runs a robot called a PiBorg.\u00a0 I am progressing in learning the Python programming language and starting to use it in my amateur digital radio endeavours.<\/p>\n The demise of the BBC computer occurred at the time\u00a0of a\u00a0major shift in the teaching of\u00a0IT in schools away fr <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History Computers and writing software has been a passion over many years. I\u00a0saw my first computer as a postgraduate student. It was a mainframe Titan computer the prototype of the Atlas 2 developed at Cambridge University and it was big … Continue reading The Future<\/h2>\n
The Promise of the Raspberry Pi Computer<\/h2>\n
<\/a>om computer science and programming towards mastering applications – mostly Microsoft Suites. The results of this step, in my opinion, contributed to a shortage of the scientists and engineers much needed today. This has been a wake up call and at last the tide is rapidly turning with the promise of a much needed new IT curriculum in schools which will be greatly facilitated by the availability of this relatively new \u00a0inexpensive and versatile Raspberry Pi<\/a> computer.<\/p>\n