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Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (Second Edition)

You're reading from Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (Second Edition) Leverage the power of programming to use the Raspberry Pi to create awesome games

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785281525

Length 146 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Daniel Leonard Bates

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER

2. Animating with Scratch

3. Making Your Own Angry Birds Game

4. Creating Random Insults

5. Testing Your Speed

6. Making an Interactive Map of your City

7. Building Beats with Sonic Pi

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to connect a Raspberry Pi computer, write its operating system to an SD card, and initiate all its components. We learned that the Raspberry Pi is capable of everything a normal computer can do (and more), and that it is targeted at programming.

In the next chapter, we will use one of the provided programming languages, such as Scratch, to create our own animations.

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Authors (1)

Daniel Leonard Bates

Daniel Leonard Bates

Daniel Bates is a computer science researcher at the University of Cambridge. His day job involves inventing designs for future mobile phone processors and when he gets home, he likes playing games or working on one of his coding projects (or both!). Daniel has been a volunteer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation since 2011 and is enthusiastic about introducing new people to computing. He has previously written Instant Minecraft: Pi Edition Coding How-to and Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (First Edition), both published by Packt Publishing.

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