Chapter 1. Cloud9 IDE

BeagleBoard foundation has created a few low power ARM-based open hardware boards. The most successful board among them was BeagleBone Black. Actually, it is a series of boards that match physical size with the same processor and slightly different hardware. There are three variants in this series—BeagleBone White, BeagleBone Black and BeagleBone Green. This book is about programming boards in this BeagleBone series. We will see details about BeagleBone hardware as the first topic of this chapter. Then we will learn how to connect and set up BeagleBone for our work. All BeagleBones come with a programming interface called BoneScript. It is a faster and easier way to deal with components of BeagleBone. We are going to use BoneScript for programming in the first part of this book. At the end of this chapter, we will learn about IDE (Integrated Development Environment), which helps us to do programming in BoneScript—Cloud9.

Here are the topics that will be covered in this chapter:

• BeagleBone hardware

• Installing the Debian image on SD card

• Setting up BeagleBone

• bone101 page

• Cloud9

• Hello World program