To use your Raspberry Pi for gaming, click on Emulation and game OS and pick your desired OS. To use your Raspberry Pi for other specific purposes like home automation and 3D printing, ...

Raspberry Pi's Python course teaches young coders how to use variables, loops, and functions to create interactive projects. Image: SolStock/GETTY.

This can then be transferred to your Raspberry Pi and run either via Python like so: $ python script.py. Or you can make the file executable and run it directly: $ chmod +x script.py ...

You can build a jukebox with a Raspberry Pi, a tiny micro-computer, that anyone can use, even if they don’t know what a Raspberry Pi is. ... sudo python pi-jukebox.py.