How advanced is Raspberry Pi?

[Donar1]

I'm thinking of buying a kit for my nephew who is taking computer programming in university. Will a Raspberry Pi kit be too basic for him? Thank you to anyone.

[pluggy]

Its as simple or as advanced as you want to make it.

[ShiftPlusOne]

There are parts which require a degree in hard stuff to understand (as gsh put it). Those parts are also where a lot of the untapped potential is.

[B.Goode]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/about/

The idea behind a tiny and affordable computer for kids came in 2006, when Eben Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, based at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science.

and

http://www.themukt.com/2014/08/18/raspb ... interview/

Raspberry Pi was an attempt by us at the University of Cambridge to solve a recruitment crisis that we were having in the middle part of the last decade. We had too few people applying to study computer science and we found that the range of skills that people had when they came in, and these were incredibly bright young people, was nothing like what people had in the mid 1990s

[Donar1]

Thanks everyone. I'll do a little more research, but I think he will like it.