Raspberry Pi projects for kids : start your own coding adventure with your kids by creating cool and exciting games and applications on the Raspberry Pi / Daniel Bates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bates, Daniel (Computer science researcher), author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer programming.

Raspberry Pi (Computer)--Programming.

Raspberry Pi (Computer).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Leonard Bates Daniel: Daniel Bates is a computer science researcher at the University of Cambridge. His day job involves inventing designs for future mobile phone processors and when he gets home, he likes playing games or working on one of his coding projects (or both! ). Daniel has been a volunteer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation since 2011 and is enthusiastic about introducing new people to computing. He has previously written Instant Minecraft: Pi Edition Coding How-to and Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (First Edition), both published by Packt Publishing.

Summary:

This tutorial contains all-important information about how to use your Raspberry Pi to develop any application you like. It is broken down into several action-packed projects, each containing easy-to-follow steps, just to show you how easy and fun computer programming can be!If you are someone with a big imagination and would like to dive straight into the realm of technology and computers, then this is the book for you. With only a Raspberry Pi and no prior experience required, you will be shown how to translate your ideas into computer programs, creating any game, tool, or animation you can

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi; You will need...; Power supply; Storage; Input; Video; Network; Preparing the SD card; Starting up the Raspberry Pi; Using your Raspberry Pi; The command line; Updating and installing new software; Other uses for Raspberry Pi; Troubleshooting; Summary; Chapter 2: Making Your Own Angry Birds Game; Scratch; Hello world!; Code tour; Creating a character; Creating a level; Moving the character; Initialization; Moving with the keyboard

Launch! Flight; Adding physics; Gravity; Bouncing; Ending the game; Scoring; Extensions; Summary; Chapter 3: Testing Your Speed; Materials needed; Creating the game controller; The controller base; Adding buttons; Connecting to the Raspberry Pi; Python; Coding the game; Random behavior; Using the controller; Adding a time limit; Bringing it all together; Complete code listing; The keyboard version; What's next?; Summary; Chapter 4: Making an Interactive Map of Your City; Hello world!; Tkinter; Writing the program; Getting a map; No Internet? No problem!; Google Maps; Generating the address

Downloading the image Using the image; Adding markers; Detecting mouse clicks; Reacting to mouse clicks; Adding labels; Basic labels; Pop-up windows; Code listing; Extensions; Layout; Additional widgets; Checkbutton; Frame and LabelFrame; Listbox; Menu; Menu button; Message; Option Menu; Radio button; Scale; Spinbox; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78398-223-3

OCLC:

874965555