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Practical Python Programming for IoT

You're reading from  Practical Python Programming for IoT

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982461
Pages 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gary Smart Gary Smart
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
2. Setting Up your Development Environment 3. Getting Started with Python and IoT 4. Networking with RESTful APIs and Web Sockets Using Flask 5. Networking with MQTT, Python, and the Mosquitto MQTT Broker 6. Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
7. Connecting Your Raspberry Pi to the Physical World 8. Electronics 101 for the Software Engineer 9. Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World
10. Turning Things On and Off 11. Lights, Indicators, and Displaying Information 12. Measuring Temperature, Humidity, and Light Levels 13. Movement with Servos, Motors, and Steppers 14. Measuring Distance and Detecting Movement 15. Advanced IoT Programming Concepts - Threads, AsyncIO, and Event Loops 16. IoT Visualization and Automation Platforms 17. Tying It All Together - An IoT Christmas Tree 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Further reading

We covered the venv virtual environment tool in this chapter. Here are links to its official documentation:

  • venv documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
  • venv tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

If you would like to learn about the virtualenv and pipenv alternative virtual environment tools, here is their official documentation:

  • virtualenv home page: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest
  • pipenv home page: https://docs.pipenv.org/en/latest

The following is a link to the Python Packaging Guide. Here you will find a comprehensive guide regarding Python package management, including pip and the easy-install/setup tools alternatives: 

  • Python Packaging User Guide: https://packaging.python.org

If you wish to learn more about scheduling and cron, here are two resources to get you started:

  • An overview of cron syntax (and a GUI tool): https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md 
  • A detailed tutorial on cron syntax: https://opensource.com/article/17/11/how-use-cron-linux
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