Are there any classes or local groups that instruct on the use of the Pi in Orange County CA ?

Want to learn by instruction.

Are there any classes or local groups that instruct on the use of the Pi in Orange County CA ?

On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 08:48:45 -0700, Aoli snipped-for-privacy@Aoli.com declaimed the following:

WHAT do you want to learn?

The R-Pi is a Linux system on a board.

Programming for Linux? (In general) Programming in C/C++ under Linux? Programming using Python (which was the "native" target of the R-Pi) System management for Linux (eg: scripting for maintenance of the OS itself) Web applications? GUI Applications? "Embedded" hardware (similar realm as an Arduino, Propeller, old BASIC Stamp -- but with a full OS available) -- working with the GPIO pins to control external hardware? Sound sensitive LED display... Quad-Copter (though really, the interrupt latency of Linux makes this more suited for micro-controller, not micro-computer).

What is your current starting level? Never programmed anything? Familiar with language X? CS degree but not in embedded systems?

All good questions.

I'd add: Should just about be OK for learning the basics of website design and construction, i.e. HTML pages and writing PHP scripts.

I don't think a Pi is suitable if you are interested in building databases: that really needs using fast, resilient mass storage (SATA- attached hard drives or solid state drives). You might just about get away with a Pi 4 and USB-attached devices like Western Digital Elements drives, but the SD cards that most RPi models use as their default mass storage are not at all suitable for the sort of use a decent database makes of mass storage.

Tell us what you want to learn and we can provide more relevant help.

it's an ARM based SBC which can run Linux but might instead run any of RiscOS, Windows IoT, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Plan 9, Inferno, BMC64 and probably several others.

What if they reply to your autistic rant, do you then have relevant "classes or local groups that instruct on the use of the Pi in Orange County CA" to recommend? No, I didn't think so.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:14:53 +1300, snipped-for-privacy@f1.n.z2.fidonet.org (Vincent Coen) declaimed the following:

I sure never saw any such response to my post, which only mentioned Linux (since it is the native OS provided by the Raspberry Pi foundation). Given the wide-open question by the OP -- I suspect listing other OSs would just be more confusion than helpful...

A pair of R-Pi were also used to run a VAX Cluster setup using (at the time easily available) OpenVMS images (the current "owners" of OpenVMS have made experimental licenses more difficult to obtain as I recall).

On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:47:57 -0000 (UTC), A. Dumas snipped-for-privacy@dumas.fr.invalid> declaimed the following:

If the response is that they are total beginner in programming at all, I'd recommend checking local community colleges for "continuing ed" type classes, probably in Python.

For embedded devices -- depends upon the type of device; but really, for that I'd recommend checking things like AdaFruit's tutorials specific to the device to be controlled. Especially as their "Blinka" library allows for interfacing with their CircuitPython libraries -- making many examples running on CircuitPython microcontrollers accessible to the R-Pi microcomputer. (And I'd recommend at least starting at that level before trying to code something in C/C++)

For the cost of any formal classes -- the OP could probably pick up a few books off Amazon covering aspects of what they wish.