Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition 2nd ed. Edition

I haven't even bought this book yet, but ALREADY it has fixed a problem with Tkinter for me. I was trying to change the color of text in a Label widget, but I couldn't find any way to do it no matter what I tried, and furthermore NO ONE could tell me how to do it, NO ONE. Oh, there was LOTS of advice, with "working" code examples, NONE of which worked. Finally, I just happened to skim through the "Look Inside" for this book, and LO AND BEHOLD, the author explains simply and concisely, what I was doing wrong and how to do it correctly. Admittedly I'm a beginner with Tkinter and Python itself, but still, no one could tell me what was wrong until I found this book.

Bought this book from Amazon. Although I am a registered customer from the PacktPub publisher, I am unable to download, or even request that they send me the example code files.I can access their website with my credentials and browse through it. However, when I try to send a message to customer service that their instructions are not working for me , I get a response that my CREDENTIALS COULD BE AUTHENTICATED. Other buyers are complaining that is publisher is unethical. If I don't get the example files I will file a complaint against them with Amazon. Thank you.

So far I have found this book first class, & well laid out. It it give worthy while explanations. Wothy paying for. True you will need to wait for Packet to email you the downloads but, so what

On chapter 3 at the moment. A good, well written, easy to follow, tutorial book. Not for the beginner, but as a next step, it fills the gaps in knowledge well.

The kindle version is a reasonable price but the paper one is overpriced imho. Takes you stepwise through tkinter functionality with explanations. With the source download you can play around with every example. It's good to have a unified source of information but I still need to Google specific questions. There are a variety of applications, again built stepwise. I have not had time yet to look deeply into these but I believe dipping into them shows you how to do more. I do have a minor criticism that there is a lot of time spent using the 'pack' geometry manager and then immediately after and in one exercise only the author says you should better use 'grid'. My experiments show that tkinter does not allow you to mix these two methods. Perhaps it would have been better from the very start to use grid? Overall glad I bought it but don't ignore video channels like codemy...