2PYTHON PROGRAMMING

THE MAJORITY OF THE PROJECTS IN THIS BOOK ARE WRITTEN IN THE PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, WHICH COMES PREINSTALLED WITH THE RASPBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM. PYTHON IS A FAIRLY SIMPLE LANGUAGE TO LEARN, BECAUSE ITS STRUCTURE MAKES IT EXTREMELY USER-FRIENDLY. BUT IT ALSO HAS COMPLEX FEATURES SUITABLE FOR MORE ADVANCED PROGRAMMERS AND CAN ACCOMPLISH TASKS EFFICIENTLY.

When building the projects in this book, I’ll walk you through writing Python code for each program. As a result, you’ll learn the basics of the language as you complete the projects. Before we get started, we’ll look at some programming basics, such as printing statements, making choices, and avoiding common errors in Python.

EXPLORING PYTHON

To illustrate Python’s efficiency, ...

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