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 Great text book
I needed a book to help me through connecting Python and QT together so that I could write GUI programs in Python. This book definitely did that for me so I am satisfied.
This book is written as a classroom textbook, not as a reference. Part I is on Python programming (the first 100 of 500+ pages). I did not need that but in the context of a textbook it's good to have everything between two covers.
I like the fact that it covers a broad range of material beyond GUI programming including database access and model/view programming. I think I will be digging into it for quite some time.
 Great PyQt Book/Only PyQt Book
I started cross-platform GUI development back in 1992 when a client asked us to migrate an IBM Mainframe application using 3270 access (available on our WinXX, OS/2, Mac, SunOs, and Solaris clients [plus an unofficial Next])to a Solaris DB/Document Management Server maintaining the same end user set. We did it using a Proprietary C package that has since imploded. Nowadays, we do the same thing, but the number and nature of clients and servers had changed. Now, we might keep our data on the web server and let the browser sort it out.
Three years I discovered a great product with a dual mode license called Qt: If you want to do open source then download the code and sign an open type license; if you want to completely retain the rights to you latest product coded in Qt, then buy and download a developer version for unique platform-type you support. Qt, the product I've been describing, is a great product in it's own write, and the author of the book I'm supposed to be reviewing, is also the author of books about the Qt application itself: C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4C++ GUI Programming with Qt4. And as I practiced my C++ and learned signals and slots and starting slapping together home based projects,I realized that Qt was the cross-platform package for me. It forms the basis of the KDE desktop language for the Kubuntu 3.4, and I had fallen for KDE after using Knoppix as a teting tool for diagnosing dead Linux boxes.
So when I learned that Riverside Computing of the UK had produced PyQt as well as other products that would allow the Qt packages to be programmed with Python instead of/in addition to C++, I was ecstatic. Searches of the Internet showed much in the way of open documentation. Searches of Amazon.com showed only "Rapid Gui Programming with Python and Qt". So this is the book for learning to integrate the great improvements in software development time associated with a interpretive, byte-code interpreter, Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation of the byte-codes (exactly the same model for Java) with the power and capability of the Qt cross-platform development tool. And also keep in mind that Qt is not just windows. It includes containers, threading, multiple-language support (including automatic support for right-to-left languages like arabic and hebrew).
This book is just fantastic.
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great book. I recommend
Good written book. covers all you need to know about python as programming language and QT to make you produce python GUI applications.
To read this book you don't already have to know any programming language, the book will teach you; but it would make the whole thing a little easier if you already knew some other (or python) programming language.
Excellent for Beginner and Professional
The book contains one of the best Python introductions I've seen so far, which means it's useful even when you don't know Python, yet. After the introduction, you'll love it :)
After that come 19 chapters which are packed with useful information in well digestible bits so the reader won't feel overwhelmed. When you're a professional, you won't waste time finding the information you need and when you're a beginner, you can easily follow every step as the author builds the examples from ground up.
When I started with PyQt, I was a seasoned Python developer but I knew little about Qt. With the help of the book, I could write a complex application using even more complex widgets like QTextEditor (including HTML formatting) in a very short time. Developing was a very nice experience because the book always seemed to contain just the answer that I was looking for.
Just, excelent
Finally i made possible to buy this Book, when I'm just starting to develop in PyQt (http://opencoffee.lnxteam.org) even having basic Knowledge of Python, this book results a very well material. I am professor from the Univ. and my own Linux/Free software Centre and I found this book that has the right way of teachings.
Another important detail is, i am Spanish speaker and i could easily read, speak and translate English. But most of the times I found many programming books that has a way to explain things not thinking if that many languages speakers could read it. This one is a very exception: it is easy to understand, even when you native language is not English.
So, Congrats Mark!!
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