The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide: How to use your new computer

✍ Scribed by Gareth Halfacree

• Publisher: Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Welcome to the Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide
We think you’re going to love Raspberry Pi. Whichever model you have – a standard Raspberry Pi board, or the new Raspberry Pi 400 with integrated keyboard – this affordable computer can be used to learn coding, build robots, and create all kinds of weird and wonderful projects.
Raspberry Pi is capable of doing all the things you’d expect from a computer – everything from browsing the internet and playing games, to watching movies and listening to music. But Raspberry Pi is much more than a modern computer.
With a Raspberry Pi you can get into the heart of a computer. You get to set up your own operating system, and can connect wires and circuits directly to its GPIO pins. It was designed to teach young people how to program in languages like Scratch and Python, and all the major programming languages are included with the official operating system.
The world needs programmers more than ever, and Raspberry Pi has ignited a love of computer science and technology in a new generation.
People of all ages use Raspberry Pi to create exciting projects: everything from retro games consoles to internetconnected weather stations.
So if you want to make games, build robots, or hack a variety of amazing projects, then this book is here to help you get started.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Introduction
Chapter 1. Get to know your Raspberry Pi
Chapter 2. Getting started with your Raspberry Pi
Chapter 3. Using your Raspberry Pi
Chapter 4. Programming with Scratch 3
Chapter 5. Programming with Python
Chapter 6. Physical computing with Scratch and Python
Chapter 7. Physical computing with the Sense HAT
Chapter 8. Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Appendix A. Install an operating system to a microSD card
Appendix B. Installing and uninstalling software
Appendix C. The command-line interface
Appendix D. Further reading
Appendix E. Raspberry Pi Configuration Tool
Appendix F. High Quality Camera setup
Appendix H. Raspberry Pi Safety & User Guide

✦ Subjects

Linux; Python; Hardware; Raspberry Pi; Scratch; GPIO; Do-It-Yourself; Elementary; Electronics