Getting started with Raspberry Pi

the long version

What can you do with the Raspberry Pi, the inexpensive credit card-sized computer? This book takes you step-by-step through the possibilities, such as writing programs in Scratch and Python; using the Raspberry Pi with Arduino; creating Internet-connected projects; playing with multimedia and more. With this guide you will get acquainted with hardware features of the Raspberry Pi; learn enough Linux to move around the operating system; draw graphics, play sounds, and handle mouse events with the Pygame framework; use the input and output pins to do some hardware hacking; discover how Arduino and the Raspberry Pi complement each other; integrate webcams and the Raspberry Pi Camera Module into your projects; and create your own Pi-based web server with Python.