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Continue reading →: Network Boot Pi (Raspberry Pi)Continuing my current Raspberry Pi themed posts (making a BASH script executable, installing web server in a BASH script) today I will be looking at network booting a Raspberry Pi. For this exercise I’m using Debian Stretch with Raspberry Pi Desktop, available from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/ , running in a virtual machine.…
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Continue reading →: Installing Web Server and WordPress via a BASH script (Rasbperry Pi)Imagine this scenario; you have several Raspberry Pi computers and want to install the various packages (Apache, PHP, MySQL, WordPress) needed to make them web servers. This might be because you have a Code Club lesson where you want students to interact more with how web servers work, or if…
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Continue reading →: Making a BASH script executable (Raspberry Pi)
There were often times when I found myself typing the same commands into the terminal on my Raspberry Pi and I with my knowledge of scheduling Python (.py) files to run via CRON I decided to start running my regular terminal commands as scripts. A BASH executable script is basically…
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Continue reading →: Kali Linux – Reaver / WPS Cracking (Raspberry Pi)
Before proceeding I need to make this very clear: DO NOT USE THE BELOW INFORMATION TO ATTACK, MONITOR OR BREAK INTO ANY COMPUTER / NETWORK / DEVICE THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. Sorry, I know that may seem very heavy handed but…
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Continue reading →: Opening Excel Spreadsheets (Python)
Microsoft Excel is great at spreadsheets but what if you want to use a different tool to analyse the data an Excel spreadsheet contains? In steps Python 3 and pandas, and as I’m currently looking at using pandas I’ve decided to make a few notes. No, not this type of…
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Continue reading →: PythonSkills.append(‘Developer’) – (Python)
For the last several weeks I’ve been undertaking various training certifications on LinkedIn Learning. Although I’ve used the LinkedIn Learning platform for different subject areas (the Microsoft SCCM course have helped for work purposes) my main drive has so far been the Python courses. Regular readers of my site have…
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Continue reading →: Convert Words To Pig Latin (Python)One of the early “practise” programs that Impractical Python (reviewed here, available from No Starch Press) is to convert words into Pig Latin. I’ve given it a shot and although I need to work on PEP-8, I managed to create a program that does it within 25 lines (including shebang…
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Continue reading →: Caesar Cipher With GUI (Python)I have been learning more about Tkinter recently and decided to revisit the Caesar Cipher I did back at the beginning of the year to see if I could add a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to it. I find revisiting older project and adding new learnings onto them helps to…
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Continue reading →: Creating A Progress Bar (Python)An item I have felt missing from my Python projects when using the Tkinter modules is a progress bar. I’ve decided to correct that. —— #!/bin/python3 # geektechstuff # progress bar # modules to import from tkinter import * # ttk makes the window look like running Operating System’s theme…
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Continue reading →: Christmas Countdown (Python / Raspberry Pi)With it being the festive season and looking for something for my recent Inky PHAT purchase needing to be I used I decided to create a Countdown To Christmas. I started off with a basic countdown in Python, where today’s date (2nd) is taken away from the 25th (Christmas Day).…
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