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Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids. Start your own coding adventure with your kids by creating cool and exciting games and applications on the Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids. Start your own coding adventure with your kids by creating cool and exciting games and applications on the Raspberry Pi

Daniel Leonard Bates

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  • Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids
    • Table of Contents
    • Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • About the Reviewers
    • www.PacktPub.com
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        • Why Subscribe?
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    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Downloading the example code
        • Downloading the color images of this book
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
      • Materials needed
        • Power supply
        • Storage
        • Input
        • Video
        • Network
      • Preparing the SD card
      • Starting up the Raspberry Pi
      • Using your Raspberry Pi
        • The command line
        • Updating and installing new software
        • Other uses for Raspberry Pi
        • Troubleshooting
      • Summary
    • 2. Making Your Own Angry Birds Game
      • Scratch
        • Hello world!
        • Code tour
      • Creating a character
      • Creating a level
      • Moving the character
        • Initialization
        • Moving with the keyboard
        • Launch!
        • Flight
      • Adding physics
        • Gravity
        • Bouncing
        • Ending the game
      • Scoring
      • Extensions
      • Summary
    • 3. Testing Your Speed
      • Materials needed
      • Creating the game controller
        • The controller base
        • Adding buttons
        • Connecting to the Raspberry Pi
      • Python
      • Coding the game
        • Random behavior
        • Using the controller
        • Adding a time limit
        • Bringing it all together
      • Complete code listing
      • The keyboard version
      • Whats next?
      • Summary
    • 4. Making an Interactive Map of Your City
      • Hello world!
        • Tkinter
        • Writing the program
      • Getting a map
        • No Internet? No problem!
        • Google Maps
        • Generating the address
        • Downloading the image
        • Using the image
      • Adding markers
        • Detecting mouse clicks
        • Reacting to mouse clicks
      • Adding labels
        • Basic labels
        • Pop-up windows
      • Code listing
      • Extensions
        • Layout
        • Additional widgets
          • Checkbutton
          • Frame and LabelFrame
          • Listbox
          • Menu
          • Menubutton
          • Message
          • OptionMenu
          • Radiobutton
          • Scale
          • Spinbox
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids. Start your own coding adventure with your kids by creating cool and exciting games and applications on the Raspberry Pi
  • Author: Daniel Leonard Bates
  • Original title: Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids. Start your own coding adventure with your kids by creating cool and exciting games and applications on the Raspberry Pi.
  • ISBN: 9781783982233, 9781783982233
  • Date of issue: 2014-03-25
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3c8m
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing