What is Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC) which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and was originally shipped with 256 megabytes of RAM, later upgraded (Model B and Model B+) to 512 MB. The system has Secure Digital (SD) or MicroSD (Model A+ and B+) sockets for boot media and persistent storage.

About Raspbian OS

Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.

Fun with Raspberry Pi

Time to get creative with your computing -- here are our favourite fun things you can do with your Raspberry Pi.

MAKE RESOURCES

Resources. Free resources to teach, learn and make with Raspberry Pi. Teach. Schemes of work to teach with Raspberry Pi · Learn. Exercises to learn with.

Python (programming language)

Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language.Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java.The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale.

RASPBERRY PI

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. Tools available are Python as the main programming language, with support for C, C++, Java, Perl and Ruby.
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Thursday, 4 December 2014

RASPBIAN OS INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

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WRITING RASPBIAN OS TO THE MEMORY CARD
          COMPONENTS REQUIRED
                SD card.
                SD formatter software.
                RASPBIAN OS.
                Win 32DiskImager software.

         First completely format the memory card.
         To format the memory card do the following procedure.
                        


         Download SD formatter software for the following link.
                https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
         Format the memory card using SD formatter software.

        Download the RASPBERRYPI OS from the following link. The recommended OS is RASPBIAN.
               http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest
                       
        Unzip the file that you just downloaded.

       Download the Win32DiskImager software from the following link.
               https://launchpad.net/win32-imagewriter/+download
       Unzip the file and install the Win32Diskimager software in the PC.

      Writing RASPBIAN OS to the SD card:
1)    Plug your SD card into your PC.
2)    Run the file named Win32DiskImager.exe.
3)    If the SD card (Device) you are using isn’t found automatically then click on the drop down box and select it.
4)    In the Image File box, choose the Raspbian .img file that you downloaded.
5)    Click Write.


6)    After a few minutes you will have an SD card that you can use in your Raspberry Pi.
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