title: Python Programming for Raspberry Pi, Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)
author: Richard Blum
description: <b>Richard Blum</b> has worked in the IT industry for more than 30 years as a network and systems administrator, managing Microsoft, Unix, Linux, and Novell servers for a network with more than 3,500 users. He has developed and teaches programming and Linux courses via the Internet to colleges and universities worldwide. Rich has a masters degree in management information systems from Purdue University and is the author of several Linux books, including <i>Linux Command Line</i> <i>and Shell Scripting Bible</i> (coauthored with Christine Bresnahan); <i>Linux for Dummies</i>, Ninth Edition; and <i>Professional Linux Programming</i> (coauthored with Jon Masters). When hes not busy being a computer nerd, Rich enjoys spending time with his wife, Barbara, and two daughters, Katie Jane and Jessica.<br /> <br /> <b>Christine Bresnahan</b> started working in the IT industry more than 30 years ago as a system administrator. Christine is currently an adjunct professor at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, Indiana, teaching Python programming, Linux system administration, and Linux security classes. Christine produces Unix/Linux educational material and is the author of<i> Linux Bible</i>, Eighth Edition (coauthored with Christopher Negus) and<i> Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible</i> (coauthored with Richard Blum). She has been an enthusiastic owner of a Raspberry Pi since 2012.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](index-1_1.jpg)
  
  
  [www.it-ebooks.info](http://www.it-ebooks.info/)
  
  
  [www.it-ebooks.info](http://www.it-ebooks.info/)
  
  
  **Learning**
  
  
  **Python® with**
  
  
  **Raspberry Pi®**
  
  
  [www.it-ebooks.info](http://www.it-ebooks.info/)
  
  
  [www.it-ebooks.info](http://www.it-ebooks.info/)
  
  
  **Learning**
  
  
  **Python® with**
  
  
  **Raspberry Pi®**
  
  
  **Alex Bradbury & Ben Everard**
  
  
  [www.it-ebooks.info](http://www.it-ebooks.info/)
  
  
  This edition first published 2014
  
  
  © 2014 Alex Bradbury and Ben Everard
  
  
  _Registered office_
  
  
  **John Wiley & Sons Ltd, ** The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West
  Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom
  
  
  For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services and for
  information about how to apply for permission to
  
  
  [reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at
  www.wiley.com. ](http://www.wiley.com)
  
  
  The right of the author to be identified as the author of this work has been
  asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Desi