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This section contains some basic information for those wishing to use Kubuntu for developmental purposes.
Kubuntu provides a number of resources intended to help you learn how to develop and run programs yourself. Below is a list of some resources which you may find useful.
Dive Into Python is a book for learning how to program in Python, aimed at programmers with some previous experience. To read the online book please review file:///usr/share/doc/diveintopython/html/toc/index.html.
PyQt Reference is a guide for PyQt 4.1.1 which is a set of Python bindings for version 4 of the Qt application framework used for KDE development. To view the reference guide please review http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4ref.html.
PyGTK Tutorial is a tutorial on developing with the graphical toolkit often used for developing Ubuntu applications. It assumes that you have knowledge of Python but not necessarily GTK.
Install the python-gtk2-tutorial package (see Add Applications).
To access the documentation, visit python-gtk- tutorial.
Devhelp is an application to read and search all of the documentation that you install.
Install the devhelp package (see Add Applications).
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