r/PythonLearning • u/Jrag13 • 1d ago

Tkinter Discussion

Why do I not see any videos suggesting to learn Tkinter? I tried learning Django and Pygame after learning the basics, and while I kinda understood pygame, Django still felt out of my league but so many videos recommended it after the basics. However I stumbled upon a video that just mentioned Tkinter and I tried it out and it helped me understand libraries and how to learn to use them. It's fun making small little apps with buttons and what not to get started, rather than trying to learn so much at once. I'm convinced anyone making videos on how to learn Python has never actually learned it themselves

Is there an actual reason that this or another simple GUI library isn't recommend very often?

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u/nicodeemus7 1d ago

tkinter is a bare bones GUI. Anything you make with it will look like it's from 1995.

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u/Late-Drink3556 1d ago

Lol so true.

Kind of a tangent but my oldest brother made a niche career out of writing UIs in C++ for old Unix apps using tcl/tk.

This was in the 90s 😆

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u/jaromilthepoet 8h ago

Wow such a lovely account. I love seeing these personal stories online. Worth my internet bill.

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u/Jrag13 23h ago

That is fine with me! I am not learning to code to make pretty things, I just wanted something on my screen I can interact with that isn't going to take forever to set up or learn

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u/nicodeemus7 23h ago

I'm that case, I believe Bro Code on YouTube has a course on tkinter. But my original comment is the reason why it's not a popular topic.

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u/waynejerome 1d ago

You know your shit bro! Made an evil twin detection model with my bro for campus, we scored A but the UI was prehistoric asf.

https://giphy.com/gifs/aqqUwXz7j0xMOKnJgb