call to arms for beginners :)

wxPython Users
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I'm trying to create a Crash Course for wxpython and I need some beginners input:
- what did you find hard when you first started with wxpython?
- how do you see such a Crash Course? What should it cover? In what order?

I've started writing and I realised that I might not be touching the right stuff.
So... please help me out... :slight_smile:

English is not my native tongue so there must be a lot of mistakes in the text.
If English is you native tongue please consider editing the text and removing my errors.

here is what I've written so far:
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/CrashCourse

it is not much but... it is a start :slight_smile:

Any kind of input is more than welcomed!

路路路

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Peter Damoc
Hacker Wannabe
http://www.sigmacore.net/

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Hm, What I found missing:

a whole working example, and not isolated demos:
it should include the more important core controls,
and escpecially a good example, of how to use
more sizer layers (more complex layout).
I could imagin a simple picture viewer for example or
a (very simple) filemanager with copy, move.
There one can show step by step integration of menus,
toolbars, panels, sizers...

Or even better: a kind of step for step tutorial,
of designing a small application, like I saw
in the Boa Constructor help.

regards

路路路

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:16:02 +0200, "Peter Damoc" <pdamoc@gmx.net> wrote:

I'm trying to create a Crash Course for wxpython and I need some beginners input:
- what did you find hard when you first started with wxpython?
- how do you see such a Crash Course? What should it cover? In what order?

I've started writing and I realised that I might not be touching the right stuff.
So... please help me out... :slight_smile:

English is not my native tongue so there must be a lot of mistakes in the text.
If English is you native tongue please consider editing the text and removing my errors.

here is what I've written so far:
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/CrashCourse

it is not much but... it is a start :slight_smile:

Any kind of input is more than welcomed!

--
Franz Steinhaeusler

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Graham Fawcett wrote:

GMane Python wrote:

[...] So, any examples should
bear in mind that your crash course will also be used my many as a crash
course into Python, too.

[...] IMO it would be better to direct the new user to one of the many
excellent Python tutorials as a prerequisite for a wxPython course.

I agree with Graham on this one -- there are already lots of resources
available for learning Python. It's better for wxPython's examples to
focus on just wxPython, rather than duplicating already-existing work.

python and event driven programming are prerequisites now... :smiley:
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/CrashCourse

At the same time, though, it's also a good idea to keep in mind that
many of the users of the Crash Course *will* be fairly new to Python.
  Advanced language features should probably be avoided, or at least
tagged with warnings and/or python-doc references...

I agree... some of the stuff from functional programming can be mindboggling.

路路路

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:13:02 -0800, Jeff Shannon <jeff@ccvcorp.com> wrote:

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International

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Peter Damoc
Hacker Wannabe