Programming with GUIs
CO217 Online course
Discover how to build your own Graphical User Interface (GUI) with Python and guizero.
Discover how to build your own Graphical User Interface (GUI) with Python and guizero. 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. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to produce applications with interactive elements such as buttons, text boxes and images.
You will 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
This course is part of the Teach GCSE computer science certificate.
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