You're reading from BBC Micro:bit in Practice A hands-on guide to building creative real-life projects with MicroPython and the BBC Micro:bit

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804610121

Length 292 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Micro:bit

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Authors (3):

Sandeep Saini

Ashwin Pajankar

Abhishek Sharma

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with the BBC Micro:bit

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the BBC Micro:bit FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Micro:bit and Using Code Editors

4. Chapter 3: Python Programming Essentials

5. Chapter 4: Advanced Python

6. Part 2: Programming Hardware with MicroPython

7. Chapter 5: Built-in LED Matrix Display and Push Buttons

8. Chapter 6: Interfacing External LEDs

9. Chapter 7: Programming External Push Buttons, Buzzers, and Stepper Motors

10. Part 3: Filesystems and Programming Analog I/O

11. Chapter 8: Exploring the Filesystem

12. Chapter 9: Working with Analog Input and PWM

13. Part 4: Advanced Hardware Interfacing and Applications

14. Chapter 10: Working with Acceleration and Direction

15. Chapter 11: Working with NeoPixels and a MAX7219 Display

16. Chapter 12: Producing Music and Speech

17. Chapter 13: Networking and Radio

18. Chapter 14: Advanced Features of the Micro:bit

19. Chapter 15: Wearable Computing and More Programming Environments

20. Index

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The Python programming language

It is important to know the background of the programming language we plan to use for our code demonstrations. Python (https://www.python.org/) is a general-purpose programming language, and it is free and open source. Python is also an object-oriented, high-level, and interpreted programming language. Figure 2.1 is the logo of the Python (https://www.python.org/community/logos/) programming language:

Figure 2.1 – Python logo (courtesy: the Python Software Foundation)

Python is a dynamically-typed and garbage-collected programming language. Apart from object-oriented programming, it supports other programming paradigms such as functional, structured, and procedural programming. Python also comes with batteries included; this means it comes with a very large standard library.

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (abbreviated as CWI, and in English, known as the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer...

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