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.

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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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Friday, 5 December 2014

Hello World Program


STEP 1:


Open LXTerminal.

Create a file with .py extension

Ex: nano helloworld.py

Nano is a type of editor used to write the code in that file named helloworld.

Type the following code in that file by insert key or by typing letter I on keyboard.

Program:

#! /usr/bin/python                   //To ensure the correct interpreter used.
#print Hello World                 //comment line.
 print “Hello World”              //command to print the statement.

Save the file by typing  :wq and then press enter. 

To see the output type the following command

Ex: sudo python helloworld.py

Output: