Primer

In this primer, you will get set up for everything you need in the following projects. We’ll introduce you to the Raspberry Pi board and its most important and interesting parts. Then we’ll walk you through setting up the Pi with all the hardware and software it needs.

This is a simple process that lets you use the Pi for so many things, including as a regular computer! We’ll go over setting up the Pi as a computer and show you how to navigate the desktop and file systems. We’ll show you how to use the terminal, also known as the command line, to give instructions to the Pi. Finally, we’ll introduce you to the Python programming language, which is what we’ll be using to program the projects.

Once you’re done with this primer, you’ll be ...

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