The Furniture Bible: Everything You Need to Know to by Christophe Pourny

By Christophe Pourny

Christophe Pourny discovered the artwork of furnishings recovery in his father’s atelier within the South of France. during this, his first booklet, he teaches readers every little thing they should learn about the provenance and heritage of furnishings, in addition to the right way to repair, replace, and deal with their furniture―from antiques to midcentury items, kin heirlooms or funky flea-market reveals. the center of the publication is an summary of Pourny’s favourite techniques―ceruse, vernis anglais,and water gilding, between many others―with full-color step by step photos to make sure that readers can simply mirror each one refinishing approach at domestic. Pourny brings those ideas to lifestyles with a bankruptcy dedicated to real-world refinishing initiatives, from a veneered desk to an ebonized table, a gilt body to a painted northern ecu hutch. Rounding out this finished advisor is care and upkeep info, together with find out how to adequately fresh leather-based, polish undefined, repair a damaged leg, and substitute felt pads, in addition to recipes to make your individual wax, shellac, varnish, stain, and extra.

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After IDLE has saved your code, you will see a message saying RESTART (Python does this so you know you’re always starting from the same consistent point), and then your code will run in the Python Shell window, as shown in Figure 2-6. If you’ve made a mistake, you’ll see an error – correct it and then choose Run Module again. py to the end of the filename. doc to documents). C H A P T E R 2 I N T R O D U C T O R Y S O F T W A R E P R O J E C T : T H E I N S U LT G E N E R A T O R Figure 2-5: The Save As dialogue box in IDLE.

You’ll look at two variations of loops: a for loop and while loop. Both have a test that determines if the code in the loop body should be run again, or if the program should skip the loop body and continue. A for loop is typically used as a counting loop, where code needs to be run for a particular number of times – for example, for six times. A while loop tends to be used while a condition is true – for example, while a user wants to continue running the program. for Loop Type the following code to loop for each item in the adjectives list and print it out: adjectives = [“wet”, “big”] for item in adjectives: print (item) The indented code, print (item), is the body of the loop that is repeated on each iteration (loop).

Most professional programmers work this way too. Feel free to experiment and customise the projects in the book. Just remember to keep a copy of the original program so that you can go back to it if your modifications don't work. This chapter helps to get you started programming the Raspberry Pi and, as such, it has the most theory. Do stick with it, and at the end of the chapter, you’ll have the knowledge to make the program your own. There’s a lot in this chapter, but you needn’t do it all in one go; sometimes it’s better to come back after a break.

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