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  • Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25

    05/06/2011 10:37:09 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 48 replies
    Geek.com ^ | 5/5/11 | Matthew Humphries
    David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite. Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools. Braben argues that education since we entered the 2000s has turned towards ICT which teaches useful skills such as writing documents in a word processor, how to create presentations,...