Intro to programming with Python andTkinter

2007-08-20T22:30:00.001-07:00

Python + Tkinter video tutorials
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Have you ever wanted to know how your application is programmed on the computer. This lecture will show you how easy it is to program. Aimed at beginner programmers or people that has no programming experience. For you to watch this class, you must have python installed from python.org . Lecture 2 will show you how to install and run python. This lecture assumes that you already have python. The python course series is designed to be short, fun, and concise. They are 10 minutes each with fun examples and easy instruction. If you want to learn programming this is the way to go.

Lecture 1
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Lecture 2
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Lecture 3 your first python program (10min)
Like all programming books, we kick off with a quick and simple non-hello world application.
You will learn: importing Tkinter library, create a simple list, create a window, create a listbox, fill a listbox, parents of widgets
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Lecture 4 Button are meant to be pushed(10min)
When you press a button, your program will say "hi"
You will learn: create a button, create a label, link up a button with specific functions, the concept of functions, indentation of functions, changing the foreground and background of widgets
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Lecture 5 Stealing is good in programming(10min)
We will program something using other people's code :)
Your will learn:How to program large programs, how to borrow other people's code(modules), basic concepts to functions
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Lecture 6 How to create anything in Tkinter(10min)
We will learn how to create everything in the Tkinter library, windows, buttons, listbox, entrybox, menus, etc.
You will learn:How to create any Tkinter widget, how to make stand alone modules.
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Lecture 7 Now let's make them do something (10min)
Now that we have learned how to create widgets, we need to tell them to do something. In this lecture we will mainly focus on Entry boxes. We will create an entry box, a button, and a listbox. When we press the button the program will take the name in the entry and put them into the list.
You will learn: insert text into a listbox, get text from Entry box, changing the size of the window, controlling where the window pop up, delete what's inside the entry box, controlling the padding between widgets
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Lecture 8 Let's make some decisions (7min)
Learn how to use the if statements. Having a program that makes decisions for us will make our life much easier and our programs more powerful. In this program you will decide which girl we should go out with on a friday night and which car we should buy. :)
You will learn: How to use if statements, examples are provided
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Lecture 9 Let's create a password system(11min)
Learn how we can use the if statement to create a password system.
You will learn: how to focus on a widget, delete and insert text in an entry box, more examples of if else statement
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Lecture 10 Photo display Part A(15min)
Learn how to create a photo display. The concentration of this lecture is about variables. Talk about the basic types of variables such as integer, float, string, and Booleans. Talk about local and global variables.
You will learn: The 4 basic different types of variables.(integer, float, string, boolean), learn the concept of global and local variables. How do you find out what type a variable is, when do you use single or double quotes for strings
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Lecture 11 Photo display Part B(9min)
Actually creating the image viewer. We are going to create what I promised last lecture.
You will learn: How to use canvas widget to include a gif image, how to delete an image. A real example of the need for global variables.
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Lecture 12 Photo display Part C(9min)
Improving the image viewer we had from the last class. This lecture will start talking about the os library. The 4 types of OS that most people have.
You will learn: The 4 types of OS most people use (windows, unix, apple, linux) , How do you find out your OS, How do you list all the files in a specific directory.
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Lecture 13 Photo display Part d(9min)
We start learning about the string library. With these many libraries, you will also learn how to find all the tools inside the library using the IDLE interpreter. In this lecture, I am showing you how to fish.
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Lecture 14 Photo display Part e(9min)
You will learn: We learn about for loops and the concept of range function in this lecture
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Lecture 15 Photo display Part f(9min)
We finish up the project by learning about how to position the widgets inside the window and well as how we can create callback functions
You will learn: pack functions, position functions, grid functions, and callback functions
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Lecture 16 Photo display Part g(9min)
We are now finally getting into more advanced topics such as reading text files
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