Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Meet Raspberry Pi

What is the Raspberry Pi?

Exploring your Raspberry Pi’s parts: hardware

Giving your Pi a cozy home: Pi cases

The brain of your Pi: system on a chip

Connecting a keyboard and mouse: USB ports

Storing memories: your Pi gets a memory card

Connecting a TV or monitor: HDMI port

Other ports and connections

Powering your Pi: microUSB power port

It’s alive! Plugging in the Pi

Getting your Pi running: software

Installing the Raspbian operating system

Configuring the operating system: making it yours

Saving your configuration and rebooting

Getting around: learning Raspbian

Finding and opening applications on your Raspberry Pi

Your files and folders

Writing code

Fruit Picker Extra: shopping at the Pi Store

Challenge

Scavenger hunt

Summary

Chapter 2. Exploring Python

Playing with Python

Discovering Python’s mathematical operators

Adding and subtracting

Multiplying and dividing

Figuring out whole numbers and remainders

Exponents

Square roots

Challenge: stacking Pis!

Storing information using variables

Creating variables and assigning values

Displaying variable values

Storing strings in variables

Changing the value of variables

Displaying text on a screen

Using the print function