Intro topic: Jogging Metrics
News/Links:
- Unholy LLM
- The reverse red herring
- The "ens–tification" of TikTok
- Response letter to Godot is not the new Unity
Book of the Show
- Patrick:
- Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
- https://amzn.to/48qlg9A
- Jason:
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- https://amzn.to/3LChBff
Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h
Tool of the Show
- Patrick:
- Factorio (Desktop Game)
- Jason:
- AI Hero (iOS and Android)
Topic: Desktop user interfaces
- What is a user interface?
- Web and Mobile UI toolkits
- Desktop options
- Qt
- Cross platform, custom UI elements
- Qt creator, code generator
- WxWidgets
- Cross platform, uses native UI elements
- WxFormDesigner, code generation
- Can look different on different operating systems
- Electron
- Local nodejs webserver
- Html/JavaScript technology
- Requires interprocess communication to use other languages
- Jupyter notebooks
- Mathematica-like notebook
- Not for distribution
- Streamlit
- Python to web compiler
- Game Engines
- Unity, Godot, Unreal
- Qt
- Tips for building desktop UI
- UI is slow (startup time, interaction time)
- Separate the UI from the engine & business logic
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