[PyQt] PyQt book "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" now available

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2007-10-24, Gustavo A. Díaz wrote:
> A shame that I can't buy here in Argentina :(
> And the cost for me is to much to buy it in Amazon for example (including
> the international delivery)...

Can't you order it through a local bookseller? Or direct from the
publisher? You don't have to buy it through Amazon---I only mention
Amazon on the book's homepage because it is so well known.

Naturally, I think the cost of the book---even with shipping---will pay
back in terms of time saved when writing PyQt applications:-)

> 2007/10/23, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am delighted to announce that
> >
> >     "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt:
> >      The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming"
> >
> > has now been published in the US.
> >
> > The book is a hardback, 648 pages, ISBN 0132354187.
> >
> > The foreword was written by Phil Thompson (creator of PyQt), who was
> > also one of the book's five technical reviewers.
> >
> > For a brief overview of the book and the table of contents, etc., see
> >
> > http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html
> >
> > This web page also has links to places that sell the book, and has the
> > full source code for the examples (and model answers to almost every
> > exercise) available for downloading.
> >
> > The book covers PyQt4 (it has no coverage of PyQt3), and is best used
> > with Python 2.5 and PyQt 4.2 or better, on Windows, Mac OS X, or an
> > X11-based Unix or Linux. No prior knowledge of GUI programming is
> > assumed, so don't worry if you've only ever done web programming:-)
> >
> > Since this is the only book that covers PyQt4 it is automatically the
> > "best"---but I have not been complacent, and have worked extremely hard
> > to make the book as accessible, useful, enjoyable, and interesting as
> > possible.
> >
> > (Note for Safari readers: The printed version of the book uses the PDF I
> > supplied as is, with fonts and typesetting exactly as I wanted them,
> > whereas the Safari online edition was retypeset by the publisher.)
> >
> > --
> > Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu
> >
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Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu