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Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Over 80 object-oriented recipes to help you create mind-blowing GUIs in Python If you are a Python programmer with intermediate level knowledge of GUI programming and want to learn how to create beautiful, effective, and responsive GUIs using the freely available Python GUI frameworks, this book is for you. Python is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language. It is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It is often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and compatibility with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Its flexible syntax enables developers to write short scripts while at the same time, they can use object-oriented concepts to develop very large projects. Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create beautiful and very effective GUIs with the least amount of code necessary. This book uses the simplest programming style, using the fewest lines of code to create a GUI in Python, and then advances to using object-oriented programming in later chapters. If you are new to object-oriented programming (OOP), this book will teach you how to take advantage of the OOP coding style in the context of creating GUIs written in Python. Throughout the book, you will develop an entire GUI application, building recipe upon recipe, connecting the GUI to a database. In the later chapters, you will explore additional Python GUI frameworks, using best practices. You will also learn how to use threading to ensure your GUI doesn't go unresponsive. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in Python GUI programming to develop a common set of GUI applications. Every recipe in this programming cookbook solves a problem you might encounter in your programming career. At the same time, most of the recipes build on each other to create an entire, real-life GUI application.
350 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2015
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November 26, 2019
Whole lotta typos and lack of technical editing make this not great.
On top of that, there's not really much more than you'd get from any random reference. It's basically "start from here" (not necessarily the right place), "make these changes" (not necessarily the right changes) "and you'll get this" (more or less). Then there's a "How it works" section which is short and doesn't really explain anything.
The chapters are named, I think, to sell copies. Like "Look and Feel Customization" doesn't really talk about look-and-feel customization, but how to use more components, just like the previous chapters.
Not really about "mastery", it's more of a thing you could pull out if you wanted to do a very specific thing as didn't find the 40 examples on the first page of a web search helpful.
On top of that, there's not really much more than you'd get from any random reference. It's basically "start from here" (not necessarily the right place), "make these changes" (not necessarily the right changes) "and you'll get this" (more or less). Then there's a "How it works" section which is short and doesn't really explain anything.
The chapters are named, I think, to sell copies. Like "Look and Feel Customization" doesn't really talk about look-and-feel customization, but how to use more components, just like the previous chapters.
Not really about "mastery", it's more of a thing you could pull out if you wanted to do a very specific thing as didn't find the 40 examples on the first page of a web search helpful.
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