Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

2016-07-27 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 07/27/2016 04:04 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 27/07/16 04:44, Jim Byrnes wrote: OOP has always driven me crazy. I read the material and follow the examples until I feel I understand them, but when I try to implement it I end up with an error filled mess. That suggests that its not th

Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

2016-07-27 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 07/27/2016 03:12 AM, Peter Otten wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: OOP has always driven me crazy. I read the material and follow the examples until I feel I understand them, but when I try to implement it I end up with an error filled mess. So I decided to give it another try. When I got to the c

Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

2016-07-27 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 07/26/2016 11:38 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Jim Byrnes writes: So I decided to give it another try. When I got to the chapter on tkinter I decided to solve all the exercises using OOP even though the book solutions did not use OOP. Hmm, that sounds ill advised. OOP is one tool among many; try

Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

2016-07-27 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 27/07/16 04:44, Jim Byrnes wrote: > OOP has always driven me crazy. I read the material and follow the > examples until I feel I understand them, but when I try to implement it > I end up with an error filled mess. That suggests that its not the OOP concept thats confusing you but the langua

Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

2016-07-27 Thread Peter Otten
Jim Byrnes wrote: > OOP has always driven me crazy. I read the material and follow the > examples until I feel I understand them, but when I try to implement it > I end up with an error filled mess. > > So I decided to give it another try. When I got to the chapter on > tkinter I decided to sol

Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

2016-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
Jim Byrnes writes: > So I decided to give it another try. When I got to the chapter on > tkinter I decided to solve all the exercises using OOP even though the > book solutions did not use OOP. Hmm, that sounds ill advised. OOP is one tool among many; trying to apply it where it's a poor fit wi