Raspberry Pi in Easy Steps

The Raspberry Pi is a cheap, basic, programmable credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and akeyboard. It can be used for many of the things that your PC does, likespreadsheets, word-processing and playing games, but its real purpose is toinspire children (and grown-ups) to learn how to program. Over five millionRaspberry Pis have been sold worldwide, sofar!Raspberry Pi in easy stepsstarts with the basic components you'll need, setting up the system and logginginto the console. Then, in easy steps, it covers: Exploringthe desktop, including understanding the Taskbar, customizingthe look and feel, examining the filesystem, and browsing the internetCommandingthe system, including getting applications, saving web pages, reading and writing text, finding files, adding users, changing permissions, and employing the shellAnimating withScratch - a fun learning environment that enables completebeginners to create computer programs visually without writing anycodeProgramming with Python -a high-level (human-readable) programming language that is processed by thePython 'interpreter' to produce resultsfastProducing games -Raspberry Pi ships with a selection of Python games for you to try, but alsoincludes the Python 'pygame' module that you can use to make your own games, which is covered in Python in easystepsDeveloping windowed appswith Tkinter, the standard Python module that is shipped withthe Raspberry Pi, that you can use to create graphical applicationsDrivingheader pins - how to control electrical input and output on theRaspberry Pi header from Python scripts, including lighting a lamp, adding morebuttons and controlling projectsUseRaspberry Pi in easy steps to have fun going backto basics and creating your own applications. Source codefiles from the examples featured in this book are available to download freefor checking against your own work.