Book description
From Adafruit Industries, a leader in products to Makers, designers, students young and old, comes the Circuit Playground Express. Connect it to your PC, Mac or Linux computer, and you can be programming interactive projects in minutes. You have a choice of programming environments to choose from: Python, the Microsoft MakeCode graphical building block environment, C/C++ via the Arduino development environment and JavaScript. Whether you are learning interactive programming, have an Internet of Things project in mind, or are looking to design on-the-go wearable electronics, the versatile Circuit Playground Express is the device to start with.
In Getting Started with the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, you'll learn how to:
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Table of contents
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introducing Circuit Playground Express
- Chapter 2: A Tour of Circuit Playground Express
- Chapter 3: Getting Started with Microsoft MakeCode
- Chapter 4: Microsoft MakeCode and Interactivity
- Chapter 5: Advanced Microsoft MakeCode
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Chapter 6: Coding with CircuitPython
- CircuitPython vs. Other Python Implementations
- Installing CircuitPython
- Text Editors
- Eject or Sync the Drive after Writing
- Using Mu
- Creating Python Code
- Examining the CircuitPython Blink Code
- Output from Circuit Playground Express to the Computer
- The Adafruit Circuit Playground Express Library
- Running Code on Express via the REPL
- Wrap-Up
- Chapter Questions
- Chapter 7: Using the Circuit Playground Express CircuitPython Library
- Chapter 8: Using the Arduino Development Environment
- Appendix A: Troubleshooting
- Appendix B: Reference Materials
- About the Author
- Index
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2018
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781680454888
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