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Connec0ngtoaRaspberryPiFromaLaptopJesusCaballero’18

MargaretZimmermann‘18DickBrown

St.OlafCollege

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RaspberryPiLaptopKit

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RaspberryPiLaptopKit

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Hands-on:Laptopconnec0ontoPi

•  CarryoutthestepsinthehandoutRaspberryPiLaptopConnec2on– ForWindowsorMacintoshlaptops– Feelfreetoworkwithaneighbor!

•  TryrecompilingandrerunningsomeexercisesfromPart1onthelaptop-connectedPisystem

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Laptopconnec0ontoPi

•  Student-developedsystemimageforconnec6ngalaptop,ledbyJesusCaballero’18– DHCPserveronpiimage– Forthcoming:clusterofpissansrouter(dongles)

•  Instruc6onalvideos(teamprojectforacourse)– CS300,ParallelandDistributedCompu2ng(PDC),Fall2016

– MargaretZimmermann’18andJesusCaballero‘18

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Videos

1.  VideosfordownloadingandinstallingPisystemimageonMicroSD– Threeversions:Windows;Macintosh;monitor/keyboard/mouse

2.  Videosforconnec6ngtoPi– Twoversions:Laptopconnec0ons(Windows,Macintosh);monitor/keyboard/mouse

– Summarizedthisworkshopsegment’shandout

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Classroomtes0ngandassessmentMargaretandJesusledstudentsintwoclassestotesttheirvideosinlateFall20161.   PDCstudenthomeworkfortodownload/

installPisystemimagesonMicroSD2.   In-classexercises:Connectlaptopandtry

someparallelcompu0ng–  PDCcourse–  CS241,HardwareDesign(HD),prereqCS1

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StudentSurveyResults

Hands-on work with Raspberry Pis has been shown effective*

“Ilearnwellusingvideos” WanttolearnmorexxxaboutPis85%

Confidentaboutthetasksxdescribed75%

JalalKawash,AndrewKuipers,LeonardManzara,andRobertCollier.2016.UndergraduateAssemblyLanguageInstruc0onSweetenedwiththeRaspberryPi. InProceedingsofthe47thACMTechnicalSymposiumonCompu0ngScienceEduca0on(SIGCSE'16).ACM,NewYork,NY,USA,498-503.

90%

•  (About videos:) “Very easy to follow. Great visuals” •  “I definitely want to do more work with Raspberry Pis in future classes

because it's fun to do some hands-on work.”

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Plans

“Laptop”RaspberryPiimage•  Modifyimagefornon-routercluster•  AddmoreCSinParallelmodulesandPDCexercises

•  Homeworksubmissionstrategy

Videos:•  Linux,otherplamorms•  “Flip”HD,withweeklyPiexercises

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Acknowledgment

•  NSF–CSinParallelgrant•  MinnesotaCSAMPprogram

– undergraduateresearchopportuni0esformembersofunderrepresentedgroups

•  St.OlafCollege•  CSstudentclustermanagers

– StephenAkers‘17,EricOseid’17•  AnonymousalumnidonorprovidedPikits