By Jason Striegel,
Creative Technologist, Google Creative Lab
I wrote my first two lines of BASIC as a five year old, and I’ve loved programming ever since.
These days I’m teaching my own kids to code, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how they could
have that same simple experience while learning to program for the web.
A quick sprint with my design friend +Jeff
Baxter led to a little experiment called Coder. It’s an open source tool
that turns Raspberry Pi into a simple,
tiny, personal web server and web-based development environment – just what you need for
crafting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while you’re learning to code. Here’s a quick video that
helps explain how it all works (and a huge shout out to our friends +Claire
Stapleton and +Minji
Hong who helped us with it):
We thought about all the stuff we could do to make Coder a more complete package, but we have
a hunch that the sooner this gets into the open source and maker communities, the more we’ll
learn about how it might be used. Hopefully, a few more folks will pitch in and help us make
this even more accessible and helpful for new coders.
To learn more, visit goo.gl/coder, get a Pi,
download Coder, and make something awesome.
+Jason Striegel tinkers, builds, and
experiments with cool web stuff at Google Creative Lab.
By Jason Striegel,
Creative Technologist, Google Creative Lab