Clive on The Daily Politics
It’s been a BBC-y week this week. Look East dropped in a few days ago, and we think their footage is going out this evening. Today, Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s Technology Correspondent, dropped by the office with a production team too (as you’ll have noticed if you read his or our Twitter feeds) – and yesterday, Clive was on The Daily Politics, talking about computing in schools.
Here’s Clive’s (very short) segment. All being well, we’ll have some more BBC footage for you some time next week.
21 comments
AndrewS
Argh, autoplay :-(
Raspberry Pi Staff liz — post author
Sorry – totally my fault. I’d got click to play turned on because I’ve been using a mobile internet dongle while I’m away which makes *everything* autoplay, and forgot to check the settings in the embed code when I posted this. Fixed now.
Duncan
This is still autoplaying.
AndrewS
It isn’t for me – must be a problem with your browser or plugins.
WolfKeeper
Please don’t post auto-play videos. They start magically playing in RSS readers that pre-load entries…
David Given
Aaaah, autoplay video! My computer is mysteriously talking to me and I don’t know why!
‘The Gizmo’
I can’t be the only one who thought she was a bit patronising.
clive
I didn’t feel patronised. And I was there :)
Remember that this was a politics show, not a tech show, it’s not their speciallity. Jo Coburn, the presenter, was genuinely interested and asked pretty decent questions.
The Raspberry Pi Guy
AUTOPLAY TIME! A mystical lady starts talking to me!
Asides from that I thought that it was a very good video!
The Raspberry Pi Guy
Andrew
Gizmo ? What’s wrong with the word computer ? Thank you Jo Coburn, BBC news political correspondent, or as I will now refer to you Talky-talky Beeb Girlie.
Miguel
Yeah, and calling it a ‘Gizmo’ is actually a big mistake, as one of the RPi’s competitors is called the Gizmo board :)
clive
When the world knows what a computer is, what you can do with a one and can program a computer to solve simple problems then our work here is done ;)
Jim Manley
Given it was a politics show, Clive couldn’t create a loop where ol’ Scratchy is stuck in an infinite loop with a government spending more than it takes in? Then again, maybe that’s why he was pacing back and forth across the virtual stage with so much agitation :D
The only thing worse than auto-play is autoplay of a political show – “Oh, the humanity!”, indeed! It’s OK, Liz, we’ve all been there, done that, and understand completely ;)
ian smith
But did Clive get a Daily Politics mug? I’ve been trying for years without success.
Also, why use the Composite Out instead of DVI to drive the monitor?
clive
They wanted a feed for their broadcast equipment in case they decided to show the whole screen, and it took a composite signal.
And no one told me about mugs :)
ian smith
the mugs are a well known collectors’ item to regular viewers. They give away 1/week in the Wednesday competition. Guests, including ministers, sometimes threaten to steal them. Next time you’re on…
They must be worth at least 1Kg of raspberries each! :-)
Miguel
Great stuff! Since our government (Portugal) is so stupid, I’m really glad somebody in Europe took this initiative to get kids interested in computers again, as some 30 years ago. Kudos to the RPi Foundation and the entire community that is developing around this tiny computer!
RobV
You can tell it’s the Politics Show.
The final question was “can you really take it out of the box and begin, do you have to be shown…?”, the answer somewhat evades the true situation i felt.
avid
Seriously?! You’re either trolling or you REALLY don’t get how TV (especially live TV) works.
RobV
peace. no troll intended.
I could expound on what i meant, but . . .
mob-i-l
I like that they use composite video, because it is important that all programs can run using a composite monitor (to keep costs down).
BTW I don’t think young people abandon Scratch that quickly, because I’ve read stories on Scratch website about kids that uses Scratch for several years. I started with ZX81 BASIC but moved on to ZX Forth after two years. The only advantage with BASIC over Scratch for Computer Science is that BASIC has multidimensional arrays and VAL (i.e. built-in parser). But Scratch has many other things, e.g. multi-threading.