This is a part of the slide set used at the MakerSpace Noida (India) launch event, Pi Maker Workshop. This slide set is designed to help people get started with the Raspberry Pi and also serves as a collection of innovative projects and some core basic concepts that can aid anybody with their first few steps into the world of DIY electronics or maybe serve as a refresher for the experienced. Feel free to refer and share but please don't alter the watermarks :)

1. Pi Maker
Workshop
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Mayank Joneja
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3.Pi for Python

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Python Basics
 The “Pi” in Raspberry Pi stands for Python, a popular
high level language
 Start installing Python on your PC
 If you know C then this is a much easier and intuitive
language
 Most of the codes we write here are in Python
 The only reason to perhaps use C/C++ with regards to
Raspberry Pi based applications could be for running
code faster as the kernel and assembler all are in C
 However Python in most of the cases is good enough
for reducing the length of code by a factor of 10 or
more

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The Zen of Python
 The core philosophy of the
language is summarized by the
document “PEP 20 –The Zen of
Python”
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tKTZoB2Vjuk (Nick Parlante
Google Developer Python Classes)
 www.codecademy.com

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Namaste Duniya
 Start Python in command line console
 print “Namaste Duniya”
 # is for single line comments, ‘’’ ‘’’ for multi-line comments

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Arithmetic and Algebra
 print 2+2
 print “two plus two equals”, 2+2
 print 10/2
 print 2*4
 print 4-2
 22/7 (default int)
 22.0/7
 a = 2
 b = 3
 C = 6
 print a+b+C

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Strings
 a = “Raspberry”
 b = “Pi”
 c = “Rules”
 print a,b,c

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Conditionals
 We’ll be dealing a lot with these when we start with GPIO as well
 temperature = float(input(‘What is the temperature in deg C ?’))
if temperature > 35:
print (‘Wear Shorts!’)
else:
print (‘Wear trousers’)
print ‘Get some exercise outside’

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Lets get loopy
#While Loop
n = 0
while (n<=10):
print n
n+=1 #or n = n+1
#For Loop
for n in range (0,10):
print n
for n in range (0,10+1)
print n
for n in range (0,10,2):
print n
for n in range (10,0,-1):
print n

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Random
import random
print (random.randint(10,40))
import random
for n in range (1,6+1):
print(random.randint(10,40)

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Lists (Mutable arrays)
mytext = [“I”, “Love”, “My”, “Raspberry”, “Pi”]
for n in range(0,5):
print (mytext[n])

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Input and output
var = raw_input(“Enter something: ”)
print “you entered ”, var
#raw_input() reads every input as a string
#then its up to the user to process the string
str1 = raw_input(“Enter anything”)
print “raw_input = ” , str1
#input() actually uses raw_input() and then
#tries to convert the input data to a number using eval()
x = input(“Enter a number”)
print “input= “, x

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Line Break
test = raw_input(“Input word”)
print “Why “ + test + “ there a line break every time?”
#add a newline to the end for testing
test = test + ‘/n’
#simple way to remove a trailing newline
if ‘n’ in test:
test = test[:-1]
print “Why” + test + “ there a line break every time?”

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Illustrate input and print
applicant = raw_input(“Enter applicant’s name”)
supervisor = raw_input(“Enter supervisor’s name”)
time = input(“Enter time”)
print “interview will be at”, time, ”by”, supervisor, “for”, applicant

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Function definition
def happyBirthdaySalman():
print “Happy Birthday dear Salman!”
def happyBirtthdayAishwarya():
print “Happy Birthday dear Aishwarya!”
happyBirthdaySalman()
happyBirthdayAishwarya()
def happyBirthday(person):
print “Happy Birthday “ + person + “.”
happyBirthday(‘Salman’)
happyBirthday(‘Aishwarya’)

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Running Python on the Pi
 We’ll use Nano quite often for editing files on the Pi. Such a command line tool (vim, nano)
is used to edit the files that can’t be accessed in r/w mode through Samba, for e.g. some
.conf files or other system files
 Make sure that you don’t use a module name as the name for your script. eg. random.py
 We’ll be using sudo to launch the editor for such files in order to run them as root user
 But for most scripts, we can use any text editor on our laptop, (I prefer to use Sublime Text)
and then transfer the files on to the Pi in our Project directory through Samba
 Then in order to run the script:
sudo python filename.py