How do I actually get somewhere in GUI programming?

Question

I am an undergraduate student. I was exposed to basic programming couple of years back in school. Till now I have an understanding of Core Java, Core Python and basic C and C++.

Every time I start off with some GUI programming so as I can start off with a project of mine, I get boggled by the sheer amount which is to be done, API to be learnt, MVC architecture and everything programmers talk about, event handling etc etc.

Studied awt and swings for a while. Tried my hands on Qt and Gtk, could not find much of documentation. Tried to make sense of pygame. I end up at the same place, knowing the core language.

Tkinter on my zenwalk Linux is broken so could never start it athough I own a book on python with Tkinter explained.

But I end up at the same place, with just the basic understanding of the language.

Want to start over, seriously now. I would like to choose python. How should I go about studying GUI programming?

I need some Internet resources and direction so that I don't end up at the same place!

Answer 1

Since it sounds like you want Python GUI programming, may I suggest PyGTK?

That's probably a pretty good place to start for someone who knows Python and would like to start small on some basic GUI apps. GTK can be complex at times, but with PyGTK there's plenty of open-source example apps you can study, from simple to complex.

Edit: This tutorial from LinuxJournal seems pretty helpful.

Edit 2: Here's the tutorial from PyGTK's site, and another tutorial I randomly found from Google (seems like that whole blog is pretty useful for what you want to do, actually). Finally, the snippet at the bottom of this page might be helpful, courtesy of Ubuntu's forums.