Raspberry-Pi Update a week and a couple of days.

The Journey Continues

It's been a week and a couple of days since I got my first Raspberry-Pi. So far I am learning a bit more. Yesterday was spent downloading a new copy of the Raspberry-Pi operating system and installing it on a much larger SD card.

The card that CanaKit sent with the operating system was only 32GB card and it failed to pass their own speed test. While shopping yesterday I saw the SanDisk Ultra Plus microSDXC UHS-1 128 GB card on sale for $26.00 so I got one.

After using my windows computer to down load and install the Raspberry-Pi operating system, I removed the original kit card, and installed the new one. Boot up was a bit slower, and of course I had to go through all the set up screens again. Fortunately I did not have a lot of things yet installed.

Speed test results of the new card:

I am not really a tech type person any more so I don't know if those are good numbers, the important line to me is the last one Test PASS. At 128 GB I should have enough room for at least a couple of years of computing.

I had to re-install a the few programs that I had found earlier, I really like the Libre Office Suite program, so of course that went right back on, I am still not sure about the GIMP program for picture editing, but I went ahead and re-installed it also. For simple image manipulation, I found a program called Mirage, it is just a pretty basic thing, but it is good for screenshots and cropping editing screen shots with out going through all of Gimp's menus.

For a web browser on my Raspberry-Pi I am using Vivaldi. So far I kind of like it and have not run into many issues, One start-up surprise this morning when I started it up:

Last night when I re-installed the Raspberry-Pi operating system I wanted to create a user other than pi. I guess the start up of the software defaults to the user pi, and not who was last using the computer. Kind of a pain since I want to use my created user name and not pi, but it just means an extra minute to log out and then back in with the user name you want.

I am going to have to move some pictures over to use for my background, I really am not that impressed with the ones they have available.

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Programming Efforts

Learning how to program is not an easy thing, I have been working to learn a little bit of python 3 programming. I have learned to import a window, a button, and text. So I was able to build the "Wanted Poster".

So what did I learn.

1. How to get a window to play in, and how to change the windows background color.
2. How to import Text to play with.
3. How to use an image.

So what did I not learn?

1. Why I have to import a a window(app) from guizero. Can I import a blank window from something or somewhere else?
2. What is the purpose of the from. That so far has not really been explained very well in the on-line booklet I am following. I am thinking that understanding may come later.

The lesson ended with just the *wanted!!! text and the picture. So I do feel that I learned a little bit in that I was able to figure out how to add Dead or Alive under the picture, so some progress.

There are a lot of resources for learning on line, but there is no one to ask when you have a question while learning. Sometimes feedback can wait, but in a lot of cases immediate feed back can help understand a concept quicker.

End Notes

Not much I have learned to import and use buttons learning new stuff is time consuming.

My comment efforts on Hive have been a little lacking, and I hope to make up for it in the weekend, if I don't it's because like last night I got lost in learning.

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