[Cialug] GUI Programming

[Todd Walton]

Well, yes.  It *is* the event-driven nature of it that confuses me.  I
get it now, that it's event-driven, and I've told my mind to
understand that.  But the event-driven methods appear to be very very
similar to logically called methods.  I've not learned to
differentiate them and so it seems like magic is happening somewhere
and I hate magic.

It'll click at some point, hopefully.

--
Todd


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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