User:Boldingd

I'm a Ph.D. student at GSU studying Computer Science. I spent two years working as a Software Engineer -- actually a Research Scientists by title, but functionally a software engineer.

I'm new to wiki-ing also.

Useful links:
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Computing
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary (less than it could be)
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page_or_book
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Wikibooks/Starting_A_New_Wikibook (good to pry apart)
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=A_Little_C_Primer (good to pry apart)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreach_loop (code-formatting example)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

Also
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking

/Sandbox/

GUI Programming
In my capacity as a Ph.D. student, I sometimes teach courses. Last fall (2013) I was teaching a course on Windowed Systems Programming; suffice to say I didn't like our existing textbook. As students need a reference, I had the clever idea of just making a wikibook to track what we do in class. There are already a number of "Learn GUI Programming with X" guides, for any language X. I'd like to tackle something a little more general, aiming at modern practices that span specific toolkits.

That's a little tricky though, because I basically discovered that the overlap between modern toolkits isn't perfect, and to do anything useful you have to get down in the weeds - and different toolkits have different copses of weeds at different places. I may finish this wikibook or I may come back and do one for a specific toolkit.

Subjects:
 * Basic concepts of event-driven programming
 * Overview of toolkits
 * Common Widgets
 * Common Layouts
 * Basic Design Principles
 * Long-Running Jobs

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Boldingd (discuss • contribs) 03:09, 3 April 2014 (UTC)