--- title: Why you should learn to program on the Raspberry Pi description: Raspberry Pi is presented as an ideal computer for learning programming due to its low cost (starting at 40€), pre-installed Raspberry Pi OS with multiple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-learn-to-program-on-the-raspberry-pi-lgiwasw0g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why you should learn to program on the Raspberry Pi | daily.dev og:description: Raspberry Pi is presented as an ideal computer for learning programming due to its low cost (starting at 40€), pre-installed Raspberry Pi OS with multiple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-learn-to-program-on-the-raspberry-pi-lgiwasw0g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lGIwasw0G.png og:image:alt: Why you should learn to program on the Raspberry Pi og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why you should learn to program on the Raspberry Pi **[WebTechie](https://daily.dev/sources/webtechie)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Raspberry Pi is presented as an ideal computer for learning programming due to its low cost (starting at 40€), pre-installed Raspberry Pi OS with multiple languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, Scratch), GPIO pins for hardware experiments, and sufficient power with the Pi 4. The post also promotes the author's book 'Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi' as a companion resource. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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