The, co-authored by our very own Eben Upton with Gareth Halfacree, is your complete guide to the Raspberry Pi, from setup and installing software to learning how to use the Pi to play music and video, using it in electronics projects, learning your first programming language, learning about networking – it’s a complete guide to everything you need to get going, and even if Eben wasn’t involved in this book, it’d be our first recommendation for adults and older kids interested in getting started with the Raspberry Pi. This second edition is a much, much fatter book than the first – there’s almost half a book’s extra content in there. The first edition only covered the earliest revision of our hardware, and much of the software we now take for granted hadn’t been written back when it was published: this new edition is bang up to date, with new chapters covering use of the camera board, how to use NOOBS to set up your Pi, the introduction of the Pi Store and much more. We’ve got the: it’s a great gift for anybody you know who might be getting a Raspberry Pi this Christmas. If you’d like to support our educational mission and help us produce free learning materials and more schools equipment, we’d love it if you could buy from us. It’s also available in the usual places:, but it’s been so popular that it’s out of stock there at the time of writing.
We hope you buy a copy: and we hope you enjoy it as much as we have. Update on my comments regarding the PDF from O’Reilly Media. I have just spoken to them by telephone and been advised that they do not have the second edition, nor were they aware that it had been published. So, my advice remains: do NOT pay for and download any of the electronic formats of this publication from Gareth’s link until someone on here confirms that it has been updated to the new edition. I have been advised that O’Reilly are looking into the matter and will email me in due course. I will post an update here as soon as I have one.
If that’s the First Edition, Second Printing (if you can have such a thing with an electronic book!) then that could explain it – in which case I heartily apologise to anyone I’ve inadvertently misled. To my knowledge, though, there’s only the sashless cover from the first edition and the sash cover from the second. Unless the publisher made a new cover without telling me, which is entirely possible.
However, I’d certainly second Mark’s advice not to buy the book from O’Reilly until things are clarified – and apologies again if I was mistaken. (Sadly, there’s no facility here to edit comments, or I’d remove my link!) ukscone: removed the link for you. Just to be clear, only Amazon.co.uk is currently offering the Second Coming, and only in paperback, not Kindle format (yet?). Apparently, there’s no room for the e-book on Amazon Web Services cloud servers, or it’s just too difficult to upload the file. Maybe they’re too busy trying to get their hijacked drone prototypes back which I’m convinced are a ploy to get their competitors to waste their time trying to do the same ridiculous thing, that Amazon has no real intention of developing, let alone deploying.
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Let’s just say that Amazon sucks in general, and particularly so in this case. Any company deserves to be dumped upon that seriously believes that it can deliver 85% of its millions of products via autonomous drones and is sinking resources into a PR campaign hawking it. They should be making real, actual, existing, tangible products like Eben’s and Gordon’s book available to the millions of prospective customers who could really make use of it (particularly students and teachers). The fact that their business practices of doing everything they can to put small competitors, and even their own customers, out of business while dodging taxes is an even bigger reason. I can’t believe anyone has invested in that company either, since they’ve never really returned much (other than to its own executives) as they slice margins ever thinner. There, is that enough light for you on what Amazon is really all about? The content of issue one was excellent – but nigh on impossible to read because of the really poor contrast between the text and the page.
Has this been improved in the second edition? If not, I’ll be skupping this release and waiting for an issue with decent contrast, where I don’t need a 3KW floodlamp and a x10 magnifying lens to be able to read it! Of course – it may well just be ‘my’ eyes – but the font and ink used certainly didn’t help:-( Maybe I need to get an eBook version! Cheers, Niall (aka The Blind One). I purchased the eBook, definitely 2nd edition, directly from Wiley’s site for 10 USD.
(Saw they also had it for Google Play, but I don’t live in that world, so I skipped it.) It required that I obtain a DRM-protected PDF using the Adobe Digital Editions application (free) on my Mac, which is also a reader. The PDF gets downloaded to the Digital Editions folder of the Documents folder. I wanted to read it on my iPad, and the solution for that is the (free) Bluefire Reader app. You can transfer the PDF using Dropbox or another cloud storage service (I used CrashPlan), by choosing “Open in Bluefire Reader” in the app.
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Make the most out of the world's first truly compact computer It's the size of a credit card, it can be charged like a smartphone, it runs on open-source Linux, and it holds the promise of bringing programming and playing to millions at low cost. And now you can learn how to use this amazing computer from its co-creator, Eben Upton, in Raspberry Pi User Guide. Cowritten wit Make the most out of the world's first truly compact computer It's the size of a credit card, it can be charged like a smartphone, it runs on open-source Linux, and it holds the promise of bringing programming and playing to millions at low cost.
And now you can learn how to use this amazing computer from its co-creator, Eben Upton, in Raspberry Pi User Guide. Cowritten with Gareth Halfacree, this guide gets you up and running on Raspberry Pi, whether you're an educator, hacker, hobbyist, or kid. Learn how to connect your Pi to other hardware, install software, write basic programs, and set it up to run robots, multimedia centers, and more. Gets you up and running on Raspberry Pi, a high-tech computer the size of a credit card Helps educators teach students how to program Covers connecting Raspberry Pi to other hardware, such as monitors and keyboards, how to install software, and how to configure Raspberry Pi Shows you how to set up Raspberry Pi as a simple productivity computer, write basic programs in Python, connect to servos and sensors, and drive a robot or multimedia center Adults, kids, and devoted hardware hackers, now that you've got a Raspberry Pi, get the very most out of it with Raspberry Pi User Guide. I pre-ordered this as soon as it was announced; in dead tree format, no less, as I was expecting to refer to it at a workbench. I ordered it partly because I thought it would be a useful get up to speed on the Pi I'd bought, but also because I wanted to put some cash the way of Upton, as he's one of the leading lights behind the Raspberry Pi foundation, even if it had been mostly 'ghostwritten' by Halfacre.
If I'm honest, I wasn't expecting it to be much; a few desultory articles on plugging thin I pre-ordered this as soon as it was announced; in dead tree format, no less, as I was expecting to refer to it at a workbench. I ordered it partly because I thought it would be a useful get up to speed on the Pi I'd bought, but also because I wanted to put some cash the way of Upton, as he's one of the leading lights behind the Raspberry Pi foundation, even if it had been mostly 'ghostwritten' by Halfacre. If I'm honest, I wasn't expecting it to be much; a few desultory articles on plugging things together, and a short guide to Python. It turns out that its actually a really great guide that I have and will recommend to anyone with, or planning to get, a Pi! The authors have made a decent spread of topics of things you might want to know and do with your device. As I read through it I thought how much it would have motivated me in my CDT course at school, having one of these. Heck, I even wondered why we didn't prototype in the electronics component of the course - was breadboard around in the 80's?
Must have been, right? Anyway, its kicked my hardware hacking interest up a notch, even with my interest in Arduino (and thanks to the book I know understand why the Pi might be good some projects, and the Arduino others), so I will be shopping for breadboard and the like this weekend to start my project! The 2012 edition, which is what I had on hand, is getting dated. I see that a revised edition has been released, though. The material covered here is important, and particularly where it discusses the differences between the Raspberry Pi processor and its configuration versus the usual desktop Linux system. The 2012 edition is specific to the original Raspberry Pi, though, and does not contain details necessary for the newer models such as the Pi Zero, the model 2 B+, or the model 3 B. The writing The 2012 edition, which is what I had on hand, is getting dated.
I see that a revised edition has been released, though. The material covered here is important, and particularly where it discusses the differences between the Raspberry Pi processor and its configuration versus the usual desktop Linux system. The 2012 edition is specific to the original Raspberry Pi, though, and does not contain details necessary for the newer models such as the Pi Zero, the model 2 B+, or the model 3 B. The writing is generally clear, though the author sometimes digresses into higher levels of detail without enough warning, and inexperienced users may find this confusing.
It might be better to have such segments clearly delineated as 'advanced users' or placed in an appendix where they are not essential to getting the device set up and running. Later chapters on software applications and programming tools are still relevant for all models. The Raspberry Pi is a remarkable device; a small credit card-sized circuit board that can be a fully functional computer. When it was first released, it proved to be an instant success, with manufacturers unable to keep up with demand from those that were intrigued by the possibilities of the small machine. The Pi was initially developed with the intention of encouraging younger people to learn about the potential of computer programming; and it proved to be highly effective, as it was so easy fo The Raspberry Pi is a remarkable device; a small credit card-sized circuit board that can be a fully functional computer. When it was first released, it proved to be an instant success, with manufacturers unable to keep up with demand from those that were intrigued by the possibilities of the small machine.
The Pi was initially developed with the intention of encouraging younger people to learn about the potential of computer programming; and it proved to be highly effective, as it was so easy for even the youngest or most inexperienced to experiment and create useful programs. Ford tractor power steering kits. This user guide was written by the creator of the Pi, and this version has been updated to include details of the later models. The book is structured in a way to allow novices to get to grips with basic tasks to quickly get the minicomputer up and running. However, it also provides details on adding other components, to allow the learner to more fully explore to power of the Raspberry Pi, and to develop fully functioning systems to perform work. The illustrations are easy to follow and they provide a comprehensive guide to the various steps required.
The authors offer troubleshooting guidance for when things don’t quite go to plan in the earlier phase; and this would be of considerable value to those that are patient enough to follow the required stages, and could be considered a useful part of the learning process. The book also provides sufficient introduction to the Linux Operating System and administration to allow a significant number of projects to be undertaken; although it is not intended to be a totally comprehensive guide.
It offers suggestions on downloading and installing key open source software to perform many tasks to show the versatility of the PI, as well as some simple programming tasks to maintain the user’s interest for many hours. I suspect that due to the size of the book, some of the younger people involved in the process might not be too keen to fully absorb the information contained, preferring to experiment on their own. However, it could provide an authoritative resource, of considerable significance to parents or teachers. I consider this to be an excellent book, definitely worth purchasing before getting your own Raspberry Pi; and it’s one that will help you to learn more about its potential.
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Review by A P Sutcliffe MSc CCI, MBCS Originally published. Great book for the ultimate beginner, but I found just from poking around online and reading about things that were freely available I already possessed most of the knowledge from the first half of the book. The 2nd half of the book is just a bunch of step by step projects that you can complete as well as tutorials on the basics of soldering breadboards breakouts and other components. Regardless very will written and a great resource to have on hand for anyone interested in Raspberry Pi developm Great book for the ultimate beginner, but I found just from poking around online and reading about things that were freely available I already possessed most of the knowledge from the first half of the book. The 2nd half of the book is just a bunch of step by step projects that you can complete as well as tutorials on the basics of soldering breadboards breakouts and other components.
Regardless very will written and a great resource to have on hand for anyone interested in Raspberry Pi development.
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