About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- What Is the Raspberry Pi and What Can You Do With It? -- Who Should Read This Book? -- What You Will Learn -- What You Will Need for the Projects -- How This Book Is Organised -- The Companion Website -- Conventions -- Reaching Out -- Adventure 1: You Have a Raspberry Pi. Now What? -- What Hardware Do You Need? -- What Other Equipment Is Helpful? -- Setting Up the Raspberry Pi -- Logging in to Your Raspberry Pi -- Exploring the Desktop in Raspbian -- Shutting Down Your Raspberry Pi -- Backing up an SD Card Image -- Adventure 2: Taking Command of Your Raspberry Pi -- Exploring the Terminal -- Commands for Navigating Through Your File System -- Understanding sudo -- Launching Programs from the Command Line -- Managing Files and Directories -- Installing and Updating Applications -- Editing Files -- Using Shutdown and Restart Commands -- Continuing Your Text Adventure -- Adventure 3: Creating Stories and Games with Scratch -- Getting Started with Scratch -- Setting the Stage -- Creating Costumes and Original Sprites -- Animating a Crazy Monkey -- Creating an Adventure Role-Playing Game -- Adventure 4: Programming Shapes with Turtle Graphics -- Scratch Turtle Graphics -- Python Turtle Graphics -- Some Super Spirals -- Further Adventures with Python Turtle -- Adventure 5: Programming with Python -- Getting Set Up for Python -- Using a Text Editor to Create a Code File -- Using the Python time and random Modules -- Python Text Adventure Game -- Continuing Your Python Adventure -- Adventure 6: Programming Minecraft Worlds on the Raspberry Pi -- Downloading and Installing Minecraft -- Minecraft Pi Controls -- Your First Minecraft Pi Python Program -- Using Coordinates in Minecraft Pi -- Creating a Diamond Transporter -- Sharing and Cloning Minecraft Pi Programs.

Further Adventures with Minecraft Pi -- Adventure 7: Coding Music with Sonic Pi -- Getting Started with Sonic Pi -- The Sonic Pi Interface -- Creating Your First Sounds with Sonic Pi -- First Electronic Track -- Further Adventures with Sonic Pi -- Adventure 8: Using the GPIO Pins on the Raspberry Pi -- Using a Raspberry Leaf Diagram -- Electronic Basics -- Using the Python Library to Control GPIO -- Do You Have a Rev 1 or a Rev 2 Board? -- Making an LED Blink -- Using a Button to Turn on an LED -- The Marshmallow Challenge -- Further Adventures with GPIO Pins -- Adventure 9: The Big Adventure: Building a Raspberry Pi Jukebox -- An Overview of the Jukebox Project -- What You Will Need -- Part One: Creating the LCD Screen -- Part Two: Downloading and Playing MP3s -- Part Three: Controlling the Jukebox with Buttons -- Part Four: Displaying Jukebox Information on the LCD screen -- Finishing Up -- Appendix: Where to Go from Here -- Websites -- Clubs -- Inspiring Projects and Tutorials -- Videos -- Books and Magazines -- Glossary -- Index.