[Tutor] GUIs and Classes

[Erik Price]

On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 05:40  PM, Isaac Hall wrote:

> I began writing my GUI programs in python in strict linear fashion.  I 
> did this
> because I was being forced to learn python, Tkinter, and class 
> structures
> all at the same time.  I had never written an object oriented program 
> in my life,
> so needless to say, I was a bit intimidated by doing so.  By writing 
> my programs
> in the linear fashion (and with some function declarations too) I 
> found that I
> could make my programs work just fine and dandy, however they 
> eventually became
> super-large files that were a mess to modify.  So I looked into trying 
> to follow
> examples in books for putting GUI stuff into classes.  I found that 
> suddenly my code
> became much clearer and more concise, and to boot, I was no longer 
> intimidated by
> making object oriented code.

I wonder if this is how most people come to OO programming.  I also was 
writing some large, ugly PHP scripts, and as I learned how to use 
objects (from Python no less) I basically rewrote my entire PHP 
application to use them too, and made it a lot easier to work with.



Erik





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