Sean Lawless

Computer Systems Laboratory Sean Lawless

Ride the wave of your life through the inside of the Raspberry Pi atop your software surfboard! This incremental introduction to computer systems laboratory includes the hardware specific knowledge to bring the Raspberry Pi hardware to life with software. Emphasizing the best open source tools for system software design, debugging and organization, this journey leads the reader through the process of creating hardware specific software drivers for LED, timer and serial communications devices. Each chapter and section introduces the reader to more Raspberry Pi details and development tools and techniques needed to create the system software ecosystem. The journey concludes with the creation of a virtual worlds adventure game complete with monsters and animation. Each chapter introduces more complex data structures and algorithms which are used to solve real problems. It is required to read and the Computer Systems chapter before reading each chapter of this book for the most realistic journey into the heart of a computer.