Introduction

In the first chapter, our objective was to ensure that all you new chefs were ready with sharpened knives and the right combination of seasonings, or at least equipped with a basic working environment with happy, flashing blue LEDs on your BeagleBone Black and some command-line controls.

In later chapters, you will learn how to use other physical pieces of the system, including controlling the physical pins on the board. Before we get there, however, you will need to take a quick dip into a handful of recipes using programming languages that are typical and essential for building robust, compelling projects on BeagleBone Black. So, give a big round of applause to your soon-to-be faithful friends: BoneScript, Node.js, and Python.