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Posted by Amaan Marfatia
Amaan Marfatia
11,132 Points

Making Desktop Applications

I want to create desktop applications for Linux and Windows. I was also thinking of making applications for Linux that mimic those on Windows. I tried using Java with Swing since the applications would work on both Linux and Windows but then someone told me that Java with Swing is really messy and I should try C++ with Qt or I should create a desktop application with HTML5 and CSS. I was wondering what I need to learn in order to get started and which programming languages I should use.

1 Answer

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

QT is amazing and I have worked with it a several times. ZetCode Has some great GUI tutorials for a variety of languages and frameworks. They taught me a ton. I used Python and PyQT4 when I last worked with it but I have heard C++ and QT is also a great combo. Because Treehouse already has great Python courses I would follow the Python track and then ZetCodes most recent PyQt tutorial (not sure if that is 4 or 5 maybe even 6 coming soon?).

Goodluck! --Ricky