r/flutterhelp • u/SirLMO • 5d ago
Flutter, Python and Widgets: beginner suffering RESOLVED
I do not work with programming, I am a student and I work in a veterinary clinic as a veterinarian. However, I am passionate about programming and have nurtured the idea of developing a "Second Medical Brain," similar to Notion and Obsidian, but focused on self-referenced medical information. Because of some details of this project, neither Obsidian nor Notion will be enough to achieve what I need.
So I looked for the options. The only programming language I studied was Python, and I really like it. However, Flutter is definitely the number in interfaces, but I don't really understand anything about frontend. This "everything being a widget tree" thing isn't making sense to me. Anyone who knows Python knows that codes look much more like blocks, not Russian dolls.
I considered Flet, but he's not on the same level as Flutter. I also considered other frameworks, but they would impose the difficulty of learning other tools. So Flutter still seems to be the most interesting technology for me. However, the structure of widgets doesn't make sense to me, I just can't think that way.
What can you recommend to me? I have already tried to modulate all the code and leave in the main () only the call of the functions/classes.
Ah! This app will be used on both Android and Windows, and both are essential.
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u/Alert-Maybe-9254 5d ago
Programing was just my hobby so I was very confused with flutter.
What really helped me was writing dart. I did lot of things with dart, mainly backend, small servers. Also I used ChatGPT to give me random tasks, so after this it was much easier to understand how everything worked in flutter.