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Programming with GUIs (FutureLearn)

Offered by Raspberry Pi Foundation, National Centre for Computing Education,

Learn what a Graphical User Interface is and write your own GUI-based applications with this practical course for teachers. Gain hands-on experience building your own interface. Discover how to build your own Graphical User Interface (GUI) with guizero.

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On this course supported by Google, you will learn how to incorporate more interactivity in your program. You will experiment with different types of widgets and build the confidence to design more complex GUI-based apps in the future.
You will have the opportunity to put what you’ve learnt to practice using the guizero library. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to produce applications with interactive elements such as buttons and text boxes.

What topics will you cover?

Using widgets to build a GUI
Responding to user inputs using events
Reading and modifying the properties of widgets
Designing GUIs and using boxes and either auto or grid layouts to implement them
Adjusting the appearance of your GUI to improve the user experience
Using time-based events
Decomposing a project to make it more manageable

Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Experiment with different widgets that can be used to build a GUI
Develop a GUI that responds to the user through the use of events
Explain how event driven programming works, and the differences between an event driven program and a procedural program
Produce a countdown timer using guizero's built-in methods
Design several different GUIs, including a text editor and a picture-matching game

Who is the course for?
This course is designed for teachers delivering computer science lessons at GCSE level or equivalent. It’s aimed at teachers who have basic experience with Python.

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