Next let’s try to expand our program to count down from 10 and then output “Hello World!” to countdown we use a loop.

We can run the program using the “run” button in the IDE it will ask you to save the file, save it as hello_world.py, and then it will execute the program like this:Īfter running the program you can see how it outputs “Hello World!” in console. This can be done with this simple program: print(“Hello World!”) For our first program we will have Python print “Hello World!” in the console. With the IDE loaded we are ready to write our first program. To start Thonny IDE press the start menu and find the icon under programming like this: Included into the Raspbian operating system is the Thonny IDE for python development. An IDE is a nice word for a text editor that also allows us to execute and debug programs. We start by opening the integrated development environment also called IDE for Python programming.

Now that we have booted up the Raspbian operating system it’s time to get comfortable and write our first Python program. This is important because we’ll be using a lot of special characters that have different keyboard mappings across the world. Next if you’re using the Raspberry Pi outside the UK press the start button and go to “Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration” and on the Localisation tab select your timezone select the keyboard layout for your keyboard. You should now see the Raspberry Pi boot screen on your monitor, once the Pi is done booting you’ll see the Raspbian desktop like this: Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi and connect the HDMI monitor, USB keyboard and mouse and lastly plug it into the power supply. With Raspbian loaded onto the SD card we are ready for the first boot of the Raspberry Pi. Once installed open Etcher, select the Raspbian zip file and press flash. Etcher can be downloaded here and supports both Windows, Linux and MacOs. Once downloaded we need to flash Raspbian onto our SD card, this can be done using a program called Etcher. Make sure you download the version with the desktop.

In order to install Raspbian we need to first download it from the Raspberry Pi website here. The Raspbian operating system has a window based UI much like windows and is easy to setup and use. The Raspberry Pi runs a linux based operating system called Raspbian. To get started we first need to load a operating system onto our SD card. To follow this guide you’ll need the following: This guide will take you through how to setup your Raspberry Pi for your first boot, as well as how to write and execute your first python program on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it the perfect language to start learning on your Raspberry Pi. It is so flexible it will allow you to build web application as well as interface with hardware components connected to the Raspberry Pi. Python is a versatile and relatively easy to learn programming language.

Raspberry pi tutorials pdf download