Thanks for the advice and good luck with your future projects.

Thanks for the replies.

That's good news about Java - but at this stage she will need to find some example code to follow/adapt.

The website countdown clock is perfect, but I would like to build a replica on the Pi.

Do you think that this would be too complicated for a beginner?

Hi Dougie I want my daughter to use it as a countdown to her A levels (so from now until May - June 2015). I also want her to create it as she has just started A level computer science and she may want to go on to a CS degree. The very limited coding in her CS course is Java, however it appears that...

I need to build a countdown clock using the Pi. It needs to display days, hours, minutes and seconds to an event. I am new to the Pi and have limited understanding of both hardware and coding. I have not seen an example project of this type, but I guess this has been done or is straightforward to an...