Richard Querin wrote: > On 8/2/07, Eric Brunson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Switching gears from linear to event driven programming is a pretty >> significant paradigm shift. Will this book help him get his head around >> that? >> >> > > That's one of the main reasons why I bought it actually. I couldn't > grasp in any significant way how it worked. I could build a working > wxpython program based on tutorials etc. but didn't really know > why/how it worked. There are early sections in the book dealing with > the basics of the event-driven paradigm as well as a section > discussing the Model-View-Controller pattern too. It's not exhaustive > on the subject by any means, but cleared up a lot of questions for me. > > It doesn't just throw you into building a detailed wxpython app > without any background as to how it works - although it does get you > going immediately with some small hello world type stuff to > immediately build a little confidence. ;) >
Sounds like a good book, I wish I'd had something similar 15 years ago when I was learning to program on Mac OS. Thanks for the review, I hope it helps the original poster. e. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
