Acknowledgments

Thank you to my wife, Juliana, and our two children, Daniel and John, for their endless support and patience through the long days, nights, and weekends I needed to write this book.

I’d also like to thank Manning Publications for having the vision to pursue this project. In particular, thanks to Robin de Jongh and Nicole Butterfield who kicked off this project by finding and encouraging me; to publisher Marjan Bace for his commitment to me and to this book; to Ozren Harlovic for orchestrating the book review process; to Kevin Sullivan and Mary Piergies for overseeing production; to Chuck Larson for the wonderful work on the graphics; to Tiffany Taylor for her outstanding copyediting; to Alyson Brener for her thorough proofreading; to Candace Gillhoolley and Ana Romac for promoting the book; to technical development editors Donald Bailey, Joel Kotarski, Jeanne Boyarsky, and John Hyaduck; and to Romin Irani, technical proofreader.

This book was significantly improved by my editor at Manning, Dan Maharry, who helped to develop and edit the book from concept to finished product. I’d like to thank Dan for his excellent insights, support, encouragement, and guidance throughout the process.

A big thank you to all the technical reviewers who read the manuscript at various stages of its development and contributed invaluable feedback: Adam Hinden, Antonio Mas Rodriguez, Betsy Hoofnagle, Catherine Freytag, Dr. Christian Mennerich, Dan Kacenjar, David Kerns, Ema Battista, Fanick Atchia, Grace Kacenjar, Henry Freytag, Jaqueline Currie, John Pentakalos, Keenan Hom, Kevin Adjaho Atchia, Matthew Giblin, Nathan Sperry, Odysseas Pentakalos, Sam Kerns, Richard Freytag, Savannah Wilson, and Scott M. King.

Thank you also to all the readers who bought and read the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) versions of the chapters and who took the time to post comments in the Author Online forum. You helped make this a better book!

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, original inventors, and community deserve a special mention. Thank you for designing something that is helping children to learn computer science. I’d also like to thank Guido van Rossum, the inventor of Python; the Python Software Foundation; and the Python user community, for creating and maintaining a simple and useful programming language for everyone.