Collect the width and height of the rectangle from the keyboard. Write a program to work out the area of a rectangle.

This challenge makes use of the get() and set() methods of the Text and TextBox widgets to easily get values typed in and display them elsewhere on the page.

Text = Text(app, text='What is your name?')īutton = PushButton(app, display_greeting, text='Greet me') from guizero import App, Text, TextBox, PushButton

It will then display ‘Hello Name’ where ‘Name’ is the name you have entered. Write a program that will ask you your name. I created two pieces of text and a button, with the second piece of text remaining blank until the button is pressed, at which point it fills in the punchline. Punchline = Text(app, text='', color='red')īutton = PushButton(app, display_joke, text='Display punchline') Joke = Text(app, 'How do you get Pikachu on a bus?') from guizero import App, Text, PushButton Don’t display the punchline until the reader hits the enter key.Įxtension: display the punchline in a different colour. Write a program that will display a joke. Another thing which is important to me is that guizero is very easy to install and get started with – so there’s a completely no faff installation process, which is a winner if you’re struggling with getting your school techies to install things.ĭownload guizero and read the documentation hereīut, promo flannel aside – is it any good for use in the classroom? On the CAS resources site, Stuart Lucas posted a popular “ Book of programming challenges” resource (9651 downloads at the time of writing) so I thought I’d put guizero to the test to see how easy it is to complete a few of his challenges with a GUI and let you see for yourself. I used tkinter a little bit with my GCSE class and they instantly loved creating GUIs, but became frustrated because simple things were so difficult to do. After talking with some developers about this at Pycon UK, I decided to do something about it, and so I wrote a library called guizero which is meant to be used by children and removes all the unnecessary nasty bits without removing the intellectual requirements. When I was a teacher, I found it frustrating that it was not at all easy for students to create GUIs using Python. The code in this post has been updated to reflect the changes in guizero version 0.4.

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