How I learned Tkinter

[peter]

I've been trying to teach myself Tkinter programming over the last few
months
(in a strictly amateur way), and have made a number of requests for
help in this
newsgroup and elsewhere.

I've now (sort of) got there - in that I have used Tkinter for some
programs for
personal use - and I've written up my experiences at

http://www.aqzj33.dsl.pipex.com/how_i_learned_tkinter/contents.htm


In general I found that while Frederik Lundh's tutorial is
comprehensive and
well written, there is little else around to help the newcomer working
without
the benefit of more experienced colleagues, and that in places the
documentation
is too sparse to be of much help.

Any thoughts? Is my experience typical?

Peter

 

[Ian Parker]

I've been trying to teach myself Tkinter programming over the last few
months
(in a strictly amateur way), and have made a number of requests for
help in this
newsgroup and elsewhere.

I've now (sort of) got there - in that I have used Tkinter for some
programs for
personal use - and I've written up my experiences at

http://www.aqzj33.dsl.pipex.com/how_i_learned_tkinter/contents.htm


In general I found that while Frederik Lundh's tutorial is
comprehensive and
well written, there is little else around to help the newcomer working
without
the benefit of more experienced colleagues, and that in places the
documentation
is too sparse to be of much help.

Any thoughts? Is my experience typical?

Peter

Recently I decided to use tkinter because it was included with Python
and like you I suffered through a few weeks of puzzling out tkinter. I
wish I'd read your notes before I started!

Regards

Ian

 

[Ken Dere]

I've been trying to teach myself Tkinter programming over the last few
months
(in a strictly amateur way), and have made a number of requests for
help in this
newsgroup and elsewhere.

I've now (sort of) got there - in that I have used Tkinter for some
programs for
personal use - and I've written up my experiences at

http://www.aqzj33.dsl.pipex.com/how_i_learned_tkinter/contents.htm


In general I found that while Frederik Lundh's tutorial is
comprehensive and
well written, there is little else around to help the newcomer working
without
the benefit of more experienced colleagues, and that in places the
documentation
is too sparse to be of much help.

Any thoughts? Is my experience typical?

Peter

"Programming Python" by Mark Lutz has several chapters on Tkinter
(O'Reilly). Thanks for your notes as I am still behind you.

Ken D.