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

Mark Summerfield mark at qtrac.eu
Fri Oct 26 08:29:17 BST 2007


On 2007-10-26, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:20, David Boddie wrote:
> > Note: As a reviewer, I received a copy free of charge, but I would have
> > bought a copy anyway. I had to squeeze my reviewing duties in between
> > work and real life, so I didn't really have the time to enjoy the book
> > the first time around. :-)
>
> Heh - when I was teaching, I'd get a free copy and *paid* to review
> textbooks. Mostly on hardware, but one of my favorites was a text on BASIC
> for the PDP-11 (in the late 1980s - it was obvious PCs would dominate by
> then), with about half the book devoted to simulating logic gates in code.
> I was surprised the check cleared for that review.

Publishers will pay reviewers a token sum... but post-Enron for non-US
citizens, this involves tedious form filling and accounting for how many
TV cat snack dinners they've had etc.

> I'll probably pick up a copy just because there are some things in Qt4 I
> still haven't found time to get on top of, and some bad habits I should
> probably break.

You will certainly find some topics that aren't covered in the C++/Qt
book:-)

-- 
Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu




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