Python Programming for Raspberry Pi, Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours

more. You can find documentation and help for the Raspbian Linux distribution at http://www.raspbian.org. In addition, because R ...

Listing 2.2 shows how you enter the whoami command. The whoami command displays the name of the user who entered the command. In ...

command line displays nothing as you type a password. At the pi@raspberrypi ~ $ prompt, type the command whoami and press the E ...

LISTING 2.3 Attempting a Reboot Without sudo pi@raspberrypi ~ $ reboot reboot: must be superuser. pi@raspberrypi ~ By the Way: G ...

boot_behaviour Start desktop on boot? update Try to upgrade raspi-config <Select> <Finish> Press the down-arrow key ...

FIGURE 2.1 The Raspbian LXDE GUI. By the Way: Linux Desktop Environments One of the wonderful things about Linux is that you can ...

TABLE 2.1 Desktop Icons The icons on the desktop behave as you would expect them to behave. You can double-click each one with y ...

FIGURE 2.2 The LXTerminal command-line interface. Did You Know: I Just Want My GUI Because you can reach the command line via th ...

TABLE 2.2 The LXDE Menu The next LXPanel icon is the File Manager. The File Manager window, shown in Figure 2.4, is similar to t ...

Windows icon, which is a handy feature! If you have several windows open on your desktop, you can minimize them all to the LXPan ...

Try It Yourself: Explore the LXDE Graphical Interface Now that you have reviewed the various icons on the LXDE graphical interfa ...

continue on its merry way, until the software is all updated. Watch Out!: Problems Fetching Archives If your software update end ...

Raspberry Pi is working with all its might to get them opened quickly. If a window seems slow, look at the CPU Monitor Graph on ...

Linux command line as well as navigate through the LXDE GUI. You know about various Debian and Raspbian documentation resources, ...

Hour 3. Setting Up a Programming Environment What You’ll Learn in This Hour: Why learn Python? How to check your Python environm ...

Several changes were made to Python v3 in order to improve its longevity as a programming language. Therefore, the time you spen ...

FIGURE 3.1 The Python v3 development environment, IDLE. If you do not see the IDLE 3 icon on the desktop, check in the LXDE menu ...

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ If you get the message command not found, then for some reason, the nano text editor is not installed. Go to ...

When the next window says Please select the model of the keyboard for this machine., press Enter to accept the default selectio ...

development of Python programs. As with the interactive shell, each Python statement is interpreted as it is entered. However, y ...