It has always been on my mind to ask this question but an event this weekend has prompted me to come forward. A friend saw my paper design of a gui app, and he was like "the world is moving in the direction of mobile and i'm still backward with gui"
There seem to be little or no attention given to GUI development by Nigerian programmers. We only discuss/ code for the web, mobile and game and GUI seems to be obsolete. Well i intend diving into creation of gui apps but for personal use, sorry so i just want to throw forward the questions:

>>> Are there GUI developers in Nigeria? Please indicate yourself

>>> What language(s) do you use or you think is best suited for GUIs'?

>>> Would/ do you create GUI apps for commercial or personal purposes or both

>>> What is/are your major challenge(s) as a GUI developer?

>>> What do you have to say to n00bs to encourage them to go into GUI? or why should "they" not venture there?

Thanks

errrm, maybe am not getting this but wats GUI?

graphical user interface? or is it something else?

@op what your own definition of a GUI
to the best of my knowledge it is the graphics interface where the users interact with the application you've created with one of the numerous programming languages

Desktop GUIs

>>> Are there GUI developers in Nigeria? Am one
>>> What language(s) do you use or you think is best suited for GUIs'? I use python
>>> Would/ do you create GUI apps for commercial or personal purposes or both? Both
>>> What is/are your major challenge(s) as a GUI developer? Myself
>>> What do you have to say to n00bs to encourage them to go into GUI? or why should "they" not venture there? Its their choice

I do mine with c++ using either Qt or wxWidgets toolkits and alot of my projects are just personal ( for the hack of it). You can also use java, python and most of the dot-net languages

i do mine with vb.net and java and also a learning android development at leasure time

Do you mean GUI libraries\API or apps?

ViktorMartins:
>>> Are there GUI developers in Nigeria? Am one

cool

>>> What language(s) do you use or you think is best suited for GUIs'? I use python

same here. My choice is wxPy, yours is?

>>> Would/ do you create GUI apps for commercial or personal purposes or both? Both

Have you launched any for the public or yet to?

>>> What is/are your major challenge(s) as a GUI developer? Myself

lol, how?

>>> What do you have to say to n00bs to encourage them to go into GUI? or why should "they" not venture there? Its their choice

Many n00bs dont know about it

Thanks for your response!

Good Boi: Do you mean GUI libraries\API or apps?

Pythonian99: Desktop GUIs

I thought my thread title was clear.

@pythonian99... C++ normaly does not come with an official gui library so instead third party vendors supply c++ gui toolkits to be used for projects. These toolkits, like wxWidgets are simply wrappers over the operating systems user interface api, hence making it very easy to create controls and even handle event. wxWidgets is one of these toolkits as mentioned above including qt. And believe me so long as you know the basics of OOP using them is so so easy. You can check this post I made for better explanation www.nairaland.com/1562329/hope-c-newbies-gui-toolkits

As for desktop application... The popular IDE code::blocks was built with wxWidgets, including audacity which is an audio editor. Besides these two, there are tones of other. For Qt we have VLC, autodesk maya ( for 3d modeling) and a tone of others as well.

So what can you do with these gui toolkits? Alot. You can build desktop apps for network traffic monitoring, you can build your own customised socket based app, video editor, visual database interface, web browser ( or any other type of web client), you can build commercial grade management systems and alot more

my advice for noobs is that every complex thing is made up of small simple part. Jst settle down and learn and you'll get it

Pythonian99:

Thanks for your response!

1. EasyGui and Tkinter
2. Launched a poem(love) app my for gf, and launched some personal apps like keylogger and password saver... Will launch for the public soon
3. I can be lazy at times, thats why am a challenge to myself
4. Lets us launch meaningful apps that can make them aware of it.

I do mine with java and visual basic