[Cialug] GUI Programming

[David Champion]

It also requires an appreciation for pizza ordering and card games.

I agree with Scott, it is a different model than what most people are used
to with transaction processing.

I used to do a lot of desktop application programming I worked on an
application called FIREHOUSE Software (data collection for fire
departments), which has some of the most complex data entry screens I've
ever seen. When we would send tech support questions into Microsoft they
were amazed with how much stuff we had going on.

You can do a lot of similar kinds of event-driven things in web forms with
javascript and AJAX and the like.

-dc


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> I am not sure if this is the problem, but one of the big things to realize
> about most modern GUI programming is that it is "event driven".
>
> This is probably not where your confusion lies, but just in case I thought
> I would mention it.
>
> If you need more to read:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_programming
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I hate it when programming books use card games or pizza ordering
> > programs to aid learning of the language.  It fails to interest me.
> > O'Reilly has some sort of magical voodoo stuff they use to get around
> > having to use games and pizza, and yet still teach you a language.
> > Other publishers could learn something from them, I think.
> >
> > I'm not a professional programmer, but it does take up a good chunk of
> > my workday.  I'm taking a second level programming class right now at
> > Simpson, based on Java.  Last time I took a Java class it was taught
> > by an evil villain (the guy wore all white suits and a pink bowtie)
> > and I was scarred.  This time it's going better, though.  The
> > instructor is very cool and we're not creating pizza programs.  But I
> > have trouble understanding GUI programming.  I feel like there's some
> > basic lesson where they explained the reasoning, the concepts, the
> > things you're supposed to keep in mind, that I missed.  I'm great with
> > logic, and I grok the whole object oriented thing.  Not a prob.
> > Polymorphism.  Inheritance.  Cool stuff.  But I don't get GUI
> > programming.
> >
> > Question: If you are a programmer, how often do you program GUIs?
> > Visual stuff other than markup?
> >
> > --
> > Todd
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