A book on Qt5?
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By the way, right now I'm following these tutorials "http://qt-project.org/wiki/Developer-Guides ":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Developer-Guides They seem very good for begginers. I found them "acidentally" reading some post in the forum. Is it just me, or the menus where they are (under the wiki) is a complete mess ? Such good material such not be so "hidden" within this site.
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Early last year I was involved with some Automotive dashboard stuff. QML was definitely NOT the way to go. When you enter the world of limited resource environments, you want compiled code, not interpreted. QML worked for the few situations where a Web service was drawing everything and the device was more or less a dumb terminal.
There is plenty of room for a Qt book which doesn't bother much with widgets but instead focuses on database, network, and the serial libraries. For embedded and semi-embedded environments these are the most important features. That and graphing speed so your application can chart 50-100K result/signals per second from remote devices.
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I'm actually looking for a QT 5 book, and can't seem to find any. Are there any news on this front?
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Several people are thinking about it, but I don't think anybody has started writing an actual book.
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I have not started one. I'm currently busy at a client site working in Qt. I also have two other books to get done and market before starting another Qt or IT based book.
Not Qt related, but this is the one I just finished.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/john-smith-roland-hughes/1102176003?ean=9780982358061A print version is done as well, just not listed yet. Audio version should be done in less than a month, final editing occurring now.
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Thanks for the answer, I guess I'll only use the qt wiki.
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the best resource for learning qt is Qt Assistance.
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I can't understand why the books on Qt5 are so few.
Many, many thousand programmers (professionally) has had access to what has been in beta for quite some time now.
When a new version of C# comes out there are already books on the subject. Even good books, like C# In Depth, by Jon Skeet.I'm only learning Qt because I need a GUI for developing in C++, but if the documentation and books are so sparse I think I might find another GUI library to use in the meantime. Something like Wx or FLTK.
But I guess there aren't many books on those subjects either.Maybe I'll keep coding console apps in C++ and use C# for the GUI stuff, who knows...
Sad to say that the two books I've purchased on Qt 4 is about as valuable as a roll of toilet paper...
Why not try to keep some sort of backwards compatibility options for those beginning their Qt journey? Instead all we get is a bunch of outdated and "Obsolete" materials. Personally I think that sucks big time. -
All you need is to read a Qt4 book and follow the Qt 5 porting guide (shipped in docs of every Qt 5 version) to update the examples. Qt 5 and Qt 4 are really 95+% compatible with each other.
And about Qt5 books - well, you can't force people to write one, right? Check out "this one":http://qmlbook.org/.
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Qt4 books are perfectly ok to learn Qt Widgets since they pratically haven't changed in Qt5.
And for learning QML / Qt quick, the on-line book Sierdzio indicated look really good. And I think much more will come, has Qt grows has a mobile plataform, especially now that Android and iOS are supported. Microsoft C# seems to be more popular (wich doesn't mean it's technically better :) so probably that's the reason why more books are available.
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Yeah, OK. I'll give it a new go with the porting guide in place.
Wasn't aware of that and I had a bad day (car broke down, refrigerator stopped working, things like that) so I was quite annoyed generally.The books probably has a slightly higher value than estimated earlier... ;-)
