{"id":1597,"date":"2019-05-10T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alandmoore.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:50:57","slug":"did-i-say-september-i-meant-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/did-i-say-september-i-meant-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Did I say September? I meant JUNE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a crazy<\/em> six months working on my new book, Mastering GUI Programming with Python<\/em>. So crazy that I somehow finished up 3 months early!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now the book is going through the last editing stages, gearing up for a release at the end of May, so eBook copies should be available by June at the latest (print copies take a little longer to become available). With that being the case, I am way overdue to give an update on what this book is all about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s in the book?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

As you know from my last post, this book is about PyQt5; unlike the first book, it’s aimed at a little more experienced user and contains less of the meat-and-potatoes development stuff like the design process, unit testing, or documentation. Instead, it’s focused on teaching as much PyQt5 as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part one: the basics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first six chapters cover the basics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Chapter 1: Getting Started with PyQt<\/em>.<\/li>
  • Chapter 2: Building Forms with QtWidgets<\/em><\/li>
  • Chapter 3: Handling events with signals and slots<\/em><\/li>
  • Chapter 4: Building applications with QMainWindow<\/em><\/li>
  • Chapter 5: Creating data interfaces with Model\/View classes <\/em><\/li>
  • Chapter 6: Styling Qt Applications <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    These six chapters start from zero and walk you through creating simple, attractive form-based applications. By the end of this section of the book, you’ll know enough about PyQt to build a GUI for a simple data-entry, configuration, or utility application. Some of the example apps we build in this part of the book include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • A text editor<\/li>
    • A CSV viewer\/editor<\/li>
    • A Calendar app<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Part two: Advanced Qt features<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      The next 10 chapters of the book comprise a tour of the more interesting capabilities of the Qt framework made available to us Python programmers by PyQt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      • Chapter 7: Working with Audio-visual Using QtMultimedia <\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 8: Networking with QtNetwork <\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 9: Exploring SQL with QtSQL <\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 10: Multithreading with QTimer and QThread <\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 11: Creating Rich text with QTextDocument<\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 12: Creating 2D graphics with Qpainter<\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 13: Creating 3D graphics with QtOpenGL<\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 14: Embedding data plots with QtCharts <\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 15: PyQt Raspberry Pi<\/em><\/li>
      • Chapter 16:Web browsing with QtWebEngine <\/em> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        As you can see, we step through a huge variety of functionality here, from graphics and multimedia to networks and databases. There’s even a chapter on coding for the Raspberry Pi. Each chapter in this section of the book contains one to three demo applications, so there is a ton of example code for you to follow. Some of my favorite demo applications I wrote for this section include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        • Sampling sound-board (chapter 7)<\/li>
        • Video logging application (chapter 7)<\/li>
        • Local-network chat (chapter 8)<\/li>
        • Coffee review database (chapter 9)<\/li>
        • File search (chapter 10)<\/li>
        • File hasher (chapter 10)<\/li>
        • Invoice generator (chapter 11)<\/li>
        • Meme generator (chapter 12)<\/li>
        • Tank combat game (chapter 12)<\/li>
        • System monitor (chapter 14)<\/li>
        • Temperature & humidity monitor (chapter 15)<\/li>
        • Basic web browser (chapter 16)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          While I had to keep these apps simple for pedagogical purposes, many are surprisingly functional; and since all the code is licensed with the MIT open-source license, you can expand on them yourself and create some pretty awesome stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The last chapter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

          While the rest of the book is focused on PyQt, the last chapter discusses deployment and sharing of your project; it covers the optimal project structure for collaboration, using setuptools<\/code> for building PyPI packages, and finally the use of PyInstaller to generate standalone executables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          We’re almost there!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

          I’ve put a ton of work into this book, and I can’t wait to share more with you. Keep your eyes here for news about the book’s availability in the coming weeks. I can’t wait for my Python peeps to get a look at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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