[Ncr-Python.in] Software Engineering - Python

[Ankur Sharma]

Hi Gaurav,

First of all, don't go by so called 'Industry Accepted Approach' as there
are so many standards and things people do and the result is a big dirty
mess. Just follow 'Keep It Simple and Stupid' like most of the FLOSS stuff
and the design shall evolve from the step wise test driven implementation.

Ok! coming to the GUI thing. If you have written command line programs then
better first turn those into console based GUI programs using Dialog,
Xdialog, Zenity, whiptail etc. (I've published a full length article
covering all these in Linux For You April 2010 issue, I'll request LFY
people to make that available on linuxforu.com). It's just like the serial
model of the command line scripts without dealing with the event driven
concepts (and lotza brain dead multi threading for the real world apps)
involved with graphics mode toolkits.

Once you turn your command line apps to console mode GUI based stuff then
move to the event driven toolkits like Tk, Gtk+, Qt, FLTK etc. The event
driven stuff is more complicated (and sometimes frustrating too) if done
through static languages like C, C++, JAVA etc. So better to start with
Python and Tkinter (see Tkinter wikipedia entry for some good programming
info). Then move to wxPython and blah blah ... You'll also really appreciate
the productivity and flexibility of the dynamic languages like Python in the
process for the creation of GUI based stuff.

I hope it works for you too as it's working for me for last many years while
creating many production grade automation tools for many product MNCs.

-- 
Regards,
Ankur
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Gaurav Kalra <gvkalra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I am a fairly new programmer in Python.
>
> Though I have written bits and pieces (all in C) but have never worked on a
> full scale GUI-based software package (not even in C). All that I have done
> uptil now is just "command line" based programs to do one or the other
> thing.
>
> I have just finished reading "A byte of Python". I hope everyone on the
> list is aware of this cool book.
>
> There is an idea stemming inside my mind but I need to discuss few issues
> before actually starting to code.
>
> 1. If I solve my problem using "command line" interfaces, how difficult is
> it to build a GUI around that application ?
> 2. What is the industry accepted approach for building desktop GUI
> applications ?
>
> I am switching to Python from C because I am feeling more abstraction with
> Python and the level of comfortableness is obviously high even though I have
> no particular experience in GUI based programming.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Gaurav Kalra
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