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/*!
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\page how-to-learn-qt.html
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\title How to Learn Qt
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\brief Links to guides and resources for learning Qt.
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\nextpage Tutorials
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\section1 Getting Started
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We assume that you already know C++ and will be using it for Qt
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development. See the \l{Qt website} for more information about
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using other programming languages with Qt.
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If you want to program purely in C++, designing your interfaces
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in code without the aid of any design tools, take a look at the
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\l{Tutorials}. These are designed to get you into Qt programming,
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with an emphasis on working code rather than being a tour of features.
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If you want to design your user interfaces using a design tool, then
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read at least the first few chapters of the \l{Qt Designer manual}.
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By now you'll have produced some small working applications and have a
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broad feel for Qt programming. You could start work on your own
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projects straight away, but we recommend reading a couple of key
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overviews to deepen your understanding of Qt: \l{Qt Object Model}
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and \l{Signals and Slots}.
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\beginfloatleft
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\inlineimage qtdemo-small.png
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\endfloat
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\section1 Getting an Overview
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At this point, we recommend looking at the
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\l{All Overviews and HOWTOs}{overviews} and reading those that are
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relevant to your projects. You may also find it useful to browse the
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source code of the \l{Qt Examples}{examples} that have things in
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common with your projects. You can also read Qt's source code since
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this is supplied.
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If you run the \l{Examples and Demos Launcher}, you'll see many of Qt's
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widgets in action.
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The \l{Qt Widget Gallery} also provides overviews of selected Qt
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widgets in each of the styles used on various supported platforms.
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\clearfloat
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\section1 Books and Learning Materials
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Qt comes with extensive documentation, with hypertext
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cross-references throughout, so you can easily click your way to
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whatever interests you. The part of the documentation that you'll
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probably use the most is the \link index.html API
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Reference\endlink. Each link provides a different way of
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navigating the API Reference; try them all to see which work best
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for you. You might also like to try \l{Qt Assistant}:
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this tool is supplied with Qt and provides access to the entire
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Qt API, and it provides a full text search facility.
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There are also a growing number of books about Qt programming.
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We recommend the official Qt book,
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\l{http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0132354160/ref=ase_trolltech/}{C++
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GUI Programming with Qt 4, Second Edition} (ISBN 0-13-235416-0). This book
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provides comprehensive coverage of Qt programming all the way
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from "Hello Qt" to advanced features such as multithreading, 2D and
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3D graphics, networking, item view classes, and XML. (The first edition,
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which is based on Qt 4.1, is available
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\l{http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip}{online}.)
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See \l{Books about Qt Programming} for a complete list of Qt books,
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including translations to various languages.
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Another valuable source of example code and explanations of Qt
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features is the archive of articles from \l{Qt Quarterly}, a quarterly newsletter for users of Qt.
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For documentation on specific Qt modules and other guides, refer to
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\l{All Overviews and HOWTOs}.
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\section1 Further Reading
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Qt has an active and helpful user community who communicate using
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the \l{Qt Mailing Lists}{qt-interest} mailing list, the \l{Qt Centre}
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Web site, and a number of other community Web sites and Weblogs.
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In addition, many Qt developers are active members of the
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\l{KDE}{KDE community}.
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Good luck, and have fun!
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