Golden - Raspberry Pi Networking cookbook connect your Raspberry Pi to the world with this essential collection of recipes for basic administration and common network services

Rick Golden , in the summer of 1972, sat in the computer lab at SUNY Fredonia and completed his first CAI tutorial on programming in APL. He was 9 years old then.

He has been programming computers for over 40 years. He has designed and developed a multitude of projects, from low-level graphics and database drivers to large-volume e-commerce platforms.

At work, Rick is currently focused on developing software to improve healthcare by mining petabytes of healthcare claims to find opportunities to improve healthcare coordination. After work, Rick teaches 10-14 year olds how to program using Raspberry Pi computers.

I would like to thank my dad for giving me the opportunity to learn programming at such a young age, which was unheard of in the 1970s. His wisdom, patience, and faith in my programming abilities has encouraged me to become the man that I am today.

I would also like to thank my wife and family for supporting me during the many hours that I spent working on this book. Without their support, this book would not have been written.

Finally, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to update this book and my editor, Arshiya Umer, for keeping me focused on my deadlines. Without her help and encouragement, this book would not have been published.

Stefan Pietzonke grew up in a village and wrote his first computer program at the age of 14. His first computer was an Amiga 500. He learned to program in Amiga BASIC. Now, he mostly writes programs in the C/C++ language.

He developed his own virtual machine called "Nano". The bytecode for the Nano VM can be created by using his assembler or compiler.

He also likes to conduct hardware projects. He built a robot from a computer mouse case. This robot is autonomous, drives around, and seeks light.

He has a blog (http://midnight-koder.net/wordpress/) about his software and hardware projects.

I want to thank my family for supporting me.

Werner Ziegelwanger studied game engineering and simulation and got his master's degree in 2011. His master's thesis was published with Terrain Rendering with Geometry Clipmaps for Games as the title. The publisher was Diplomica Verlag. His hobbies are programming, games, and all kinds of technical gadgets.

He worked as a self-employed programmer for some years and mainly did web projects. At that time, he started his own blog (http://developer-blog.net), which is about the Raspberry Pi, Linux, and open source.

Since 2013, Werner has worked as a Magento developer and the head of programming at mStage GmbH, an e-commerce company that is focused on Magento.

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Preface

A Raspberry Pi 2, with its 900MHz quad-core processor, has more processing power than a network server from the late-1990s. Created as an educational tool to inspire the next generation of programmers, the Raspberry Pi is also an excellent network server. It can be used to share files, host websites, create Internet access points, and analyze network traffic. Multiple Raspberry Pis can be clustered to create a single, highly available, and fault-tolerant super computer. This book shows you how.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation recognized that computers had become so expensive and arcane that programming experimentation on them had to be forbidden by parents . The parental restrictions on using computers had created a year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science . So, the Foundation set out to create a computer that was "affordable, and powerful enough to provide excellent multimedia, a feature we felt would make the board desirable to kids who wouldn't initially be interested in a purely programming-oriented device".

2 million Raspberry Pis were sold in the first two years of its release, which was not limited to educators and school children. Hobbyists were also excited to use the inexpensive Linux-based computer in their projects. In February 2015, the quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 was released with significantly more power and memory than the original, which was more than enough memory and power for many typical server applications.