[Tutor] python query

[Alan Gauld]

On 11/01/14 18:53, Reuben wrote:

> I would like to know the difference between GUI programming v/s web
> designing...To be more specific lets compare Django(used for web
> programming) v/s Tkinter(used for GUI programming)

What do you mean by the difference in programming? Do you want to know 
about the programming paradigms or the difference in deployment or the 
difference in the nature of the apps (I hope you already understand that 
but maybe not...)

Django is on the web so all the interactions take place over a network. 
The UI is displayed in a browser which interprets HTML sent from the 
server. Because of the relatively long latency between client and server 
web apps tend to be slower and less responsive than
desktop apps. To get round that they tend to cram more into a single 
screen. More modern apps also move a lot of functionality into 
Javascript on the browser and rely on lightweight protocols like JSON to 
fetch data from the server(this is known as Ajax style programming)

Tkinter is a desktop GUI toolkit where the application responds to users 
events and draws pictures(widgets) on the screen. All logic
and display happens locally, although some apps communicate with a 
server somewhere (this is called client server design).

OK, That's a start, what specifically do you want beyond that?

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