unit-2.md

Unit 2: User Interfaces and Experiences (UI/UX)

Prerequisites: Software Products and Services

Learning Objectives

In this unit, we'll discuss how people can interact with software applications. And we'll explore various user interface capabilities of Python, to provide a better understanding of what is possible later in the semester when students create their own user-facing Python applications.

We'll also use this unit to continue practicing our ability to run Python applications using the developer tools we've set up in a previous unit. And we'll begin introducing some basic components of the Python language to prepare for the next unit.

Slides

Discussions and Notes

• User Interfaces and Experiences (UI/UX)

Reference Documents

• Python Programming (mostly just for your general awareness):
  • Syntax and Style
  • Comments
  • Printing and Logging
  • Debugging
  • User Inputs
• Python Packages (just for your awareness, not really working with these yet):
  • The tkinter Package
  • The PySimpleGUI Package
  • The flask Package
  • The speech_recognition Package

Activities and Exercises

• "Interface Capabilities" Exercise