Early Access

This early access version of Getting Started with Spark Photon has been written as the Photon is about to become available, and, so, much of the content is based on the Photon’s predecessor the Core, even though the focus of the book is the Photon. The team at Spark have been extremely helpful, sharing information about the minor differences between the Photon and the Core,  so that the book anticipates these differences.

When the Photon becomes available, the book will be updated to iron out any inconsistencies between the book and the new device.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Italic

Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions.

Constant width

Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.

Constant width bold

Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values or by values determined by context.

Using Code Examples

Supplemental material (code examples, exercises, etc.) is available for download at https://github.com/oreillymedia/title_title.

This book is here to help you get your job done. In general, you may use the code in this book in your programs and documentation. You do not need to contact us for permission unless you’re reproducing a significant portion of the code. For example, writing a program that uses several chunks of code from this book does not require permission. Selling or distributing a CD-ROM of examples from Make: books does require permission. Answering a question by citing this book and quoting example code does not require permission. Incorporating a significant amount of example code from this book into your product’s documentation does require permission.

If you feel your use of code examples falls outside fair use or the permission given here, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

We appreciate, but do not require, attribution. An attribution usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ISBN. For example: “Make: Getting Started with Spark Core and Photon by Simon Monk (Maker Media). Copyright 2015 Maker Media, 978-1-4571-8701-8.”

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