Chapter 1. Introduction and Shared Project Resources

What is this chapter for? I hope to use this first chapter to act as a primer for all other chapters and projects in the book. I would like you to use the introduction as a common resource containing all of the resources shared by the projects in the book.

The introduction will cover the installation of third-party software, libraries, helpers, and so on, that are required by the projects in the later chapters. By keeping these resources in this chapter, the projects aren't swamped with repetitive code and the project code can be kept as clean and concise as possible.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: