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Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (Second Edition)

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (Second Edition) Leverage the power of programming to use the Raspberry Pi to create awesome games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785281525
Length 146 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Leonard Bates Daniel Leonard Bates
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Hello world!


As is traditional when we learn about a new technology, we're going to start with the simplest program possible, just to make sure that we understand the basics. In this case, we're going to create a basic window with a title and some text inside.

Tkinter

There are many different Python modules available that let us create graphical programs, but we're going to use one called Tkinter. This module is included with Python by default and works on almost all computers and operating systems. It allows Python to communicate with the Tk toolkit, and it is Tk which will generate our displays.

Tkinter has easy-to-use functions to create textboxes, buttons, scroll bars, menus, and more. Collectively, these components are called widgets. To create a graphical user interface, we combine a number of widgets with a layout, which tells Tkinter how the widgets should be arranged. For example, we could say that all the buttons should be placed in a row or that they should be arranged vertically...

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