Making a text editor using Python
Getting started First, we need to plan our text editor by thinking about what it needs to do and which widgets are best suited to the task. Look at an …
Course: Programming with GUIs
Python and guizero: Intro to boxes
In this article, we are going to look at a specific kind of widget called a Box and learn how it can be used to control the layout of our …
The importance of GUI layouts
In this article, we will be looking at how to layout the widgets in a GUI and how to change a GUI’s design. IWe will discuss why design is important …
How to Make a Superhero Name Generator App
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No … it’s the Amazing Blue Badger! Designing a GUI-Based App You’ve now got all the ingredients to start to build basic …
How to Create Your First GUI
Load up your chosen code editor (usually part of your IDE) and save the empty file as ‘firstgui.py’ straight away. Once done, put this code into the coding window: from …
What is a GUI and why do we have them?
The earliest computers had no keyboards or monitors, and would instead use punchcards for input and line printers to provide output. When monitors were introduced, these generally used text-based output …
Project decomposition
This week you are going to use guizero to build a game. The program you will write is complex and so the project will be broken down into several stages …
Understanding event driven programming
The programs you will have written prior to this course were probably procedural programs. Procedural or sequential programs generally run instructions from top to bottom, calling functions as they run. …