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Gareth Halfacree

Author of Raspberry Pi User Guide

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Gareth Halfacree is the author of the Raspberry Pi User Guide and an expert in educational and embedded computing. A noted technology journalist and long-time tech author. Gareth also has an extensive background in computing education

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The new Raspberry Pi 4 computer, now with 1, 2 or 4 GB (LowPowerDoubleDataRate4) memory, is a rather important product you can buy.

Important for the power that comes available at a very, very reasonable price.

This book gives a very practical introduction (and doesn't bother with the operating system).
 
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ruit | 4 other reviews | Aug 9, 2022 |
An overview of the Raspberry Pi and what can be done with it. Chapters cover
background
anatomy
setting up
unix basics
networking
running a media centre
running a web server and wordpress
programming with scratch
programming with python
using the gpio port

A good introduction to be aware of what is possible, but not intended to be comprehensive. Should give you an awareness of what the Raspberry Pi can be used for so that you can go off and look up more detail for making yiur own projects. I'd recommend as a good introduction, especially if you are new to Raspberry Pis.… (more)
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