the raspberry pi, i had to head back to its birth place in cambridge and take a boat trip with eben uptone computer scientist that invented the pi. around 2007, eben grew alarmed by the declining number of computer science students in england and decided to try and inspire the youngsters with a new approach. eben: i have always assumed cambridge is the best place in the world to study computer science, certainly the best place in the u.k. and we saw this collapse in the number of people applying to study computer science at the university of cambridge. which is crazy, because the computing industry is blowing up. clerk obviously it is a , beautiful environment to come and study in. -- greg obviously it is -- a beautiful it is environment to come and study in. the theory we came up with was that most of us arriving in the mid-1990's, like i did, had grown up with a cheap, programmable eight-bit micro computers. ashlee: you grew up using the bbc micro. that's what got you -- eben: that's it. i had a bbc micro at school and sat in the corner of the classroom, and those were beautiful machine

the raspberry pi, i had to head back to its birth place in cambridge and take a boat trip with eben uptonthe computer scientist that invented the pi. around 2007, eben grew alarmed by the declining number of computer science students in england and decided to try and inspire the youngsters with a new approach. eben: i have always assumed cambridge is the best place in the world to study computer science, certainly the best place in the u.k. and we saw this collapse in the number of people applying to study computer science at the university of cambridge. which is crazy, because the computing industry is blowing up. it is a beautiful environment to come and study in. the theory we came up with was that most of us arriving in the mid-1990's, like i did, had grown up with a cheap, programmable eight-bit micro computers. ashlee: you grew up using the bbc micro. that's what got you -- eben: that's it. i had a bbc micro at school and sat in the corner of the classroom, and those were beautiful machines. ashlee: supported by the u.k. government, the bbc micro gave many students their first taste