I. Introduction to the BlackAdder IDE

There are several possibilities for starting out with Python and PyQt. You can buy BlackAdder, the PyQt IDE, or you can download the freely available components — Python, Qt and PyQt and use your own tools to write your application.

In this part I'll first guide you through the installation of BlackAdder or PyQt. Then we make a brief tour of the interface of BlackAdder. A very short introduction to Python and the first concepts of programming follows, and we conclude with a chapter on using the BlackAdder debugger.