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Raspberry Pi By Example

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi By Example Start building amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi right out of the box

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785285066
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arush Kakkar Arush Kakkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Raspberry Pi and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Minecraft Pi 3. Building Games with PyGame 4. Working with a Webcam and Pi Camera 5. Introduction to GPIO Programming 6. Creating Animated Movies with Raspberry Pi 7. Introduction to Computer Vision 8. Creating Your Own Motion Detection and Tracking System 9. Grove Sensors and the Raspberry Pi 10. Internet of Things with the Raspberry Pi 11. Build Your Own Supercomputer with Raspberry Pi 12. Advanced Networking with Raspberry Pi 13. Setting Up a Web Server on the Raspberry Pi 14. Network Programming in Python with the Pi A. Newer Raspberry Pi Models Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to Raspberry Pi and Python

One can learn about topics in computer science in an easy way with the Raspberry Pi and Python. The Raspberry Pi family of single-board computers uses Python as the preferred development language. Using Raspberry Pi and Python to learn programming and computer science-related concepts is one of the best ways to start your journey in this amazing world of computers that is full of creative possibilities. We will explore these possibilities in this book.

We will commence our journey in this chapter by getting ourselves familiar with the following topics:

  • Single-board computers
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Raspbian
  • Setting up Raspberry Pi
  • Basics of Python
  • Turtle programming with Python
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Raspberry Pi By Example
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