Learn Robotics Programming

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "This creates the myrobot.img file as a clone of the whole SD card in your home directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

import socketprint('%s is alive!' % socket.gethostname())

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

C:\Users\danny>ping raspberrypi.local

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "You'll see two download links, ...