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students aged between 5 and 16 years old. The materials are divided
into 77 units subdivided into more than 500 lessons. For each stage,
the Raspberry Pi Foundation provides a teacher guide and a curricu-
lum map, together with detailed lesson plans, slides, activity sheets,
home assignments, and assessment. The resources are regularly updat-
ed based on the latest research and teachers’ feedback.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation also provides a range of comput-
er courses for both beginners and experienced programmers to help
them learn coding (see  Learn to program in Python). Courses cover
Python, Scratch, AI and machine learning, web design, and cybersecu-
rity, to name but a few.
Another valuable resource made available by the Raspberry Foun-
dation is a free computing and digital making magazine named Hello
World (available here:  Hello World). The last issue, for example, is
devoted to teaching and AI, bringing readers closer to recent develop-
ments in artificial intelligence. This issue is an excellent resource for
students wishing to become more AI literate.
Code Club ( Code Club.org), yet another valuable resource curat-
ed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, provides resources and projects
for anyone who would like to run a Code Club for children aged nine
and above at any school. Step-by-step project guides (available here:
 Discover our projects and paths) ensure that even those without
any prior coding knowledge can learn the necessary skills for coding in
Scratch, Python, and HTML/CSS. The global community of Code Club
spans from India to the USA. There are 13,000 code clubs around the
world, with 180,000 young people learning to code in 160 countries.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, together with the University of Cam-
bridge, developed Ada Computer Science, a free online platform for
teachers and students worldwide. The resources available for teachers
and students who sign up are tailored to GCSE and A-level computer
science exam specifications. There is an abundance of real code exam-
ples in Python, C#, VB, and Java available to support the learning of
students.
Quinlan and Baloro (2018) visited 21 primary, secondary, and other
schools across England and Scotland, 15 of which employed a teacher
who was a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator and another six that had
received Raspberry Pi computers as part of a Google giveaway in 2014.
They found that Raspberry Pi computers were mostly used for their
potential in physical computing in a variety of projects, which tended

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