On Jul 3, 1:48 pm, mo reina <urban.yoga.journ...@gmail.com> wrote: > an anyone recommend a resource (book,tutorial,etc.) that focuses on > application development in python? something similar to Practical > Django Projects, but for stand alone applications instead of web apps > (for now). > > i'm in a bit of a funny place, i have a decent/good grasp of python > syntax and my logic isn't bad, but i have no clue on how to assemble > an application, i seem to be stuck on writing scripts.
Do you have a particular project in mind? Getting unstuck, I think, is about having a goal and then you'll begin to seek out what you need to make that happen (see below). > also, it seems that a lot of > app programming is 90% gui bindings, with very little actual code, or > am i totally way off mark? I'm sure it varies greatly depending on the application. Depending on the complexity of the GUI and how much care goes into it, that can be a lot of code (it seems to me). > i recently picked up the django practical projects book, and in a few > days i re-wrote a website i did with django. i feel it was the book's > project-centric approach that made this possible. I don't know of a book oriented that way (sounds like a good idea), but you might take a look at this video "learning path" from the ShowMeDo website: http://showmedo.com/learningpaths/14/view It is focused on GUI (desktop and web) application development. There is a super basic starter video in there about making a Python image viewer application. Then the video series about building emol seems very thorough (there are 35 videos!), though I haven't watched it yet. What I would suggest is that you first decide what you want to accomplish. Then research and pick a GUI framework first (Tkinter, wxPython, PyQT, PyGTK), then whatever other tools you'll need (database? drawing? math/science?), which will either be in the standard library or in a 3rd party library. Any of the research on what tools to use can be Googled with bountiful results, as those questions are asked a lot. Then just jump in. This will prompt you to learn in a directed way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
