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Desktop Apps with Python & Qt track

Installable desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux: windows, widgets, signals, models, settings and packaging with PySide6.

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Ordered the way it's meant to be learned — each lesson assumes the ones before it.

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Desktop Development Specialization

Build installable desktop applications with Python and PySide6: windows, widgets, signals, model/view data, settings and packaging.

  1. Desktop: Windows, Widgets & Layouts with PySide6Build real native windows on your own machine with Python and Qt: install PySide6, learn the QApplication and QMainWindow anatomy, and arrange widgets with box and grid layouts.45 minintermediate
  2. Desktop: Signals, Slots & EventsMake your interface react: connect signals to slots, receive the data signals carry, emit custom signals, override event handlers sparingly, and ask questions with modal dialogs - in a live unit converter.45 minintermediate
  3. Desktop: Model/View ProgrammingStop copying data into widgets by hand: learn Qt's model/view architecture - a QStringListModel in a QListView, a custom QAbstractTableModel with editable cells, and live search with QSortFilterProxyModel.50 minadvanced
  4. Desktop: Files, Dialogs & SettingsGive your desktop apps a memory: choose files with native QFileDialog dialogs, read and write them safely with with open, keep application state as JSON, and remember window geometry and recent files with QSettings.45 minintermediate
  5. Desktop: Packaging & DistributionShip it: turn a folder of Python into a double-clickable artifact per platform with PyInstaller - what --onefile and --windowed really do, bundling data files and icons, and the honest costs of SmartScreen, notarization and antivirus false positives.40 minintermediate
  6. Desktop Capstone: Build & Package a Real AppThe capstone: build QuickNote for real - an architecture of three parts, a notes list beside an editor, JSON persistence, QSettings window memory and a PyInstaller build - then test what can be tested, walk a manual checklist for the rest, and release-test the artifact on a clean machine.75 minadvanced

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