Raspberry Pi (21st Century Skills Innovation Library: Makers as Innovators)

I have only left 2 reviews on products on the internet. This is my second. The product description should clearly explain that this is intended for very green novices and/or children. My review is harsh, but fair. The deflation I experienced when receiving the product is difficult to describe in words, but I will try.Your anticipation grows when you see the notification pop up on your phone that your package arrived. You come home and endorphins begin flooding your senses as the manilla bubble envelope with the Amazon logo catches your periphery. You grasp the package and it feels empty. "That's weird", you think. Then a flood of emotions crashes over you. Anxiety, anger, sadness. You think, "Oh well, even though this package is empty and there must have been a mishap at the Amazon distribution center, I'll open anyway. Here goes nothing!" You open, and all your other emotions are swept away by one: regret. The informative and substantial book that would unlock the secrets of the new gizmo you just purchased turned out to be an instruction manual for children. Probably a good instruction manual for kids, but you were expecting something else.Maybe I should have read further down the page hidden among the menagerie of similar items and related video shorts to the product details to see that this item is meant for grade schoolers and that it's only 32 pages. I believe that the product description summary paragraph should make that much more apparent.

This is a book meant for 2nd graders that have never seen a computer before (good luck finding one of those in the USA). It is too simplistic to be of use for anyone else really. If you are comfortable enough with technology to be considering the purchase or use of a RasPi, you will be insulted by this book.If this book seems useful to you, you really shouldn't be messing with a RasPi, go back to AOL.

This book was definitely not worth $11.28, save your money.