Bhaskar Chaudhary - Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

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Bhaskar Chaudhary is a professional programmer and information architect.
He has a decade of experience in consulting, contracting, and educating in the field of software development. He has worked with a large set of programming languages on various platforms over the years.
He is an electronics hobbyist and a musician in his free time.

Erik S. Rapert is a pale, slim programmer and a twin who loves Linux and video
games. He lives in Dallas with his wife, who is also a software engineer. Erik has a
wide range of experience, which includes creating blinking LEDs using Arduino,
building small desktop apps using Python and Tkinter, web development with PHP or
Ruby, and developing cutting-edge virtual reality using C++. He has used a very
broad range of programming languages, but Python is one of his favorites.

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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition will walk you through the process of developing real-world graphical applications using Python and Tkinter, the built-in GUI module of Python.

This book attempts to highlight the features and capabilities of Tkinter while demonstrating best practices involved in writing GUI programs, irrespective of the library that you choose to build your application with. Here, you will learn how to use Tkinter to develop exciting, fun, and useful GUI applications with Tkinter and Python.

We hope to take you on a fun journey through more than 10 projects from different problem domains. As we develop new applications in each project, the book also builds up a catalog of some commonly used strategies to develop real-world applications.

Software developers, scientists, researchers, engineers, students, and programming hobbyists with basic familiarity with Python will find this book interesting and informative. A motivated Python newbie with a background in writing programs can fill in the gaps of knowledge with a little outside research.

People familiar with basic programming constructs in other programming languages can also catch up with some brief reading on Python. No GUI programming experience is assumed.

, Meet Tkinter, begins from scratch, providing an overview of Tkinter and covering details of how to create root windows, add widgets to a root window, handle layout with geometry managers, and work with events.

, Making a Text Editor, develops a text editor using the procedural style of programming. It gives readers their first taste of several features of Tkinter and what it is like to develop a real application.

, Programmable Drum Machine, uses object-oriented programming to develop a drum machine that is capable of playing user-composed rhythms. The application can also save compositions and later edit or replay them. Here, you will learn the techniques of designing a GUI application using a model-first philosophy and writing multithreaded GUI applications.