The Raspberry Pi is aninexpensive programmable credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV anda keyboard. It can be used for many of the things that your PC does, likespreadsheets, word-processing and playing games, but its real purpose is to inspirechildren (and adults) to learn how to program. Over five million Raspberry Pishave been sold worldwide, so far!

Raspberry Pi3 in easy steps starts with the basic components you"ll need, setting up the system and logging into the console. Then, in easysteps, it introduces you to the Raspbian operating system thatis optimized for the Raspberry Pi. You"ll learn how to customize the look andfeel of your system, how to navigate the file system, and how to use thepowerful system "shell" to make things happen for you. The new GPIO interfaceis fully described, and the new NOOBS installer is also described for setup.

RaspberryPi 3 in easy steps enables complete beginners to create theirvery own computer programs with the Scratch visual programming environment. Italso instructs programming in the high-level (human-readable) Pythonprogramming language, which is processed by the Python "interpreter" to produceresults fast. Examples demonstrate how to use the included Python "pygame"module, to make your own games, and how to use the included "Tkinter" module tocreate graphical windowed apps.

Raspberry Pi 3in easy steps also illustrates how to control electrical inputand output on the Raspberry Pi header from Python scripts, including lighting alamp, adding more buttons and controlling projects. With the knowledge gainedfrom this book the reader can confidently advance to any future electronicRaspberry Pi project or other explore other programming environments.

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