IndyPy Bytes: From Tkinter to Bottle

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Agenda:

12:00p - 12:10p Introductions/Order Food

12:10p - 12:40p Presentation
"Tinkering without Tkintering: Teaching GUI development to beginning programmers with basic web technologies" by Andy Harris
Many CS programs have moved to Python as their first language, and the transition has been largely positive. However, young people today are unfamiliar with the CLI, and often think they are not doing "real" coding if it does not have a GUI, web, or mobile support.

The classic approach has been to teach GUI programming with Tkinter, the only GUI system built into stock python, but this is a frustrating solution. Using a more fully-featured GUI system brings its own problems.

Andy will describe how he has shifted to a form of basic web apps using bottle as a satisfactory way to introduce GUI programming in a CS 1 class. The talk will be informative, but also no doubt free-wheeling and fun, because Andy has well-documented attention issues.

12:40p - 12:50p Q&A

12:50p - 1:00p Networking/Pay your Bill