[Cialug] GUI Programming

[Nathan C. Smith]

It is sometimes helpful to review the interface guidelines for the Operating System or device you are targeting.  The rise of the touch interface changes some classic concepts.

The fact that GUIs are event driven is probably overlooked these days since they are so prevalent to "users" so it may not even occur to teach that concept.

I try to avoid the GUI where I can.  Even when I was working on a lot more web development it was better to have a designer create the appearance and write to that design then have to design it myself. 

-Nate



-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:15 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] GUI Programming

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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