From the course: Python GUI Development with Tkinter

What you should know

From the course: Python GUI Development with Tkinter

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What you should know

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- [Barron] Before you begin this course you should already have a basic, working knowledge of Python and be comfortable writing and executing your own Python programs. If you're not already familiar with Python then I highly recommend taking one of the other beginner courses that are available on Lynda.com first. Once you're comfortable with the material in those courses you'll be ready to tackle Python GUI Development with Tkinter. This course assumes you already have Python installed on your machine and have it configured for the development environment of your choice. For some of the videos in this course I'll be using IDLE as a shell interpreter to interactively demonstrate concepts. For other videos, I'll be using IDLE as a text editor to write and execute example programs. I choose to use IDLE because everyone taking this course should have it from installing Python and it has a simple interface which works well enough for the basic programs we'll be writing. You can use any development environment that you want as you work through this course and I encourage you to stick with what you're already familiar with using. A basic text editor will work just fine for these programs or, you can use a more advanced IDE like Eclipse if that's your preference. Finally, I'll be teaching this course using Python 3. If you're using Python 2, then there will be some minor differences in the code that you'll need to account for. I'll do my best to point out the ones that are related to Tkinter as we come to them. Keep in mind that the exercise files will require some minor changes to run if you're using Python 2 because they're written for Python 3.

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