Raspberry Pi: The complete guide to Raspberry Pi for beginners, including projects, tips, tricks, and programming by James Arthur

Author:James Arthur [Arthur, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

If you want to teach yourself code, or if your child is expressing interest in learning how to write code, then the Raspberry Pi is the perfect device for you. However, once someone obtains a Raspberry Pi it can be difficult to figure out where to go from there. The first thing you need to look into is something called Raspberry Jams. These are meetups that are community-lead that center around people getting together who want to learn and teach about the Raspberry Pi and all of its facets. Raspberry Jams are growing in popularity, especially in bigger cities, because many technological event meet-ups are usually geared towards adults.

Raspberry Jams are geared towards individuals of all ages. The only requirement is that you come to either learn or teach coding and everything it has to do with the Raspberry Pi.

The best thing you can do for any beginner who is learning how to code with the Raspberry Pi is to begin with Scratch.

While you will never get a coding job writing in Scratch for living, that is not the point. The point of scratch is to take the code and turn it into something beautiful and visual. This makes it less intimidating for beginners and the animations at the end make them more prone to“play”the game.

Then, the next step up from Scratch is Python. This is a simple educational programming language you can use on your career resume of programming abilities. Python was designed specifically to be easy to read and simple to write. It has its own interpreter that comes on the Raspberry Pi device, which is the thing that actually runs the code once you write it, and the programming environment on the Pi device comes with strict rules that are enforced to help individuals learning Python write clean, good code.

Another way you can play around with code that makes it easy to learn is playing with Minecraft Pi. If you are not familiar with Minecraft, it is essentially a digital Lego game. Just as you would take Legos and construct a pretend spaceship, a pretend person, or a pretend castle with plastic bricks, you take all of these elements and put them onto a computer screen and you work with virtual bricks to build objects, houses, animals, and the world you want to see. The great thing about Minecraft, and what makes it so popular with children, is the fact that there are no hard limits as to what you can build in it. Your creations that you come up with can be as big or small as you want and they can be as simple or as ambitious as the imagination allows. It is an unadulterated experience where children can truly flex the whole of their imagination without ever getting themselves into trouble, and there is a version of this game for the Raspberry Pi device that can be downloaded that incorporates this world with the foundations of coding. It is free of charge and it is designed to run on the limited hardware of the Raspberry Pi.

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