On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 5:13 AM, Mike Barnett <mike_barn...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Here we go: > > Take 3 numbers as input (A, B, C). Add them together. Display the result in > a simple pop-up window. > > That’s a pretty typical kind of problem for the first few weeks of beginning > programming. Maybe first few days. >
Do you mean "beginning GUI programming", or are you saying that this kind of thing should be in someone's first few days of programming overall? I disagree with the latter; for the first days of a programmer's basic training, the REPL is ample. No GUI needed, don't even need input() at that stage. While I would generally teach input() before any GUI toolkit, the opposite decision is also valid, but definitely neither is needed right off the bat. For someone's earliest forays into GUI programming, I would actually *still* not word the challenge that way. I would keep everything in a SINGLE window, because that showcases a major strength of a GUI - that you can interact with it multiple times, rather than being forced into a linear workflow. So here's my alternative challenge: Take two numbers as inputs. Add them together and display them in a third field. Whenever either input is changed, recalculate the output. This requires proper event handling, so it's less likely to create a useless one-liner that has no bearing on real-world code. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/