Pi Store

[brody5117]

Does any one here know how to get the pi store? Is it still around?

[SonOfAMotherlessGoat]

Ah, it must be summer.

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[rpdom]

There is no Pi Store.

[broe23]

There is no Pi Store.

Don't give out the secrets. During my Navy days, we would tell new guys that there was a Bowling Alley down below, that you had to go through a scuttle hatch and climb down five decks, which led into the After Steering Compartment and Shaft Alley, where you could check the bilges and the shafts.

Always had someone that would fall for it. Same as sending them to go get some Flight Line, a Bucket of Steam and other oddball items.

[bensimmo]

It's a shame though as my kids liked the store, it's natural for them to see and view all the details like shopping.

Current systems are more difficult as you have to guess from a name what something is, search the web to see if it really is what you want etc. Or mainly stumble across it and then give it ago. Luck plays a big part.

Maybe some GOG style setup would help out, though getting them past Minecraft to do some programming was hard enough

Maybe something to bring back as raspian\raspberry foundation matures

[klricks]

It's a shame though as my kids liked the store, it's natural for them to see and view all the details like shopping.

Current systems are more difficult as you have to guess from a name what something is, search the web to see if it really is what you want etc. Or mainly stumble across it and then give it ago. Luck plays a big part.

Maybe some GOG style setup would help out, though getting them past Minecraft to do some programming was hard enough

Maybe something to bring baIt'as raspian\raspberry foundation matures

You can use a Package Manager to search for available packages as well as what has already been installed.
Raspbian has a new PM in the [Menu] --> [Preferences] --> [Add / Remove Software]

Aptitude is another PM which is installed in Raspbian as well.

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sudo aptitude

I prefer Synaptic PM (GUI) but must be installed:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install synaptic

[bensimmo]

I'll have a look and remember synaptic from many moons ago
The raspian GUI one is a bit useless, doesn't really show much or what is installeded, don't think it checks for updates either and takes a lot of guesswork to find thing and gives a small bit of text about what things are ? Either that or i'm using it wrong.

Nothing like the easy of the Android/Windows10, Amazon even, Appstores.

[W. H. Heydt]

Maybe some GOG style setup would help out, though getting them past Minecraft to do some programming was hard enough

I stumbled across a set of three small workbooks at Costco, of all places. Two fo the books are on Scratch and one is on Python. My 8-year-old grandson is having a blast working through the beginning Scratch book. I'm helping him with a couple of pages per day, but not every day being mindful of the attention span of a kid that age.

For those on the other side of the Pond...Costco is a major membership warehouse store rather noted for large package sizes. They have a book section which is mostly kids books, cookbooks, and current popular works. Most of the books appear to be designed to be used as presents.

[jgreen71]

I stumbled across a set of three small workbooks at Costco, of all places.

ISBN?

[W. H. Heydt]

I stumbled across a set of three small workbooks at Costco, of all places.

ISBN?

978-1-4654-4392-2 for the beginning Scratch book.

[bensimmo]

Just seen our UK version, it has the lovely carol vorderman on the front and can be had cheaply.

The eldest has used scratch and tried some simple python, also has used game maker from your games. He'll probably do more when he gets to senior school.
Youngest 8, dabbles in scratch, my aim is for them to build pong with a scoreboard. They are doing that on the good old desktop like they do at school, we'll then transfer it to the Pi and I've told them the next challenge will be to add some button for each side, a start and rest too.

For some reason they like pong