Preface

The Raspberry Pi represents the best in innovation in computer science, education, entertainment, hobby hacking, and several other categories that you can classify the device family into. Even as this book is entering publication, the Raspberry Pi family of products have become the third best selling computers of all time. It is anyone’s guess that with the continuing innovation coming out of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the thousands of people across the planet constantly demonstrating newer and better examples innovative solutions with the various flavors of Raspberry Pi, what new heights this product line might reach!

One of the main goals of the Raspberry Pi is affordability. And the purpose of this book is to allow the beginner to learn Programming in Python, as well as manipulating hardware. The reader may have worked a little bit on hardware, and a little bit on programming, and want to strengthen skills in either area. The reader may also just be interested in doing more projects with the Pi Zero in Python, and of course, some of the projects in this book, briefly highlighted below might be of interest.

The book starts off with some warm up examples, helping develop a familiarity with the Raspberry Pi environment, and the projects increase in variety and complexity as the book progresses. While, readers who have advanced a bit before approaching the book can skip a few chapters, we recommend beginners progress through all chapters, since the concepts build on top of each other.