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Qt Creator chapter and the intended audience #177

Open jsprenkle opened 10 years ago

jsprenkle commented 10 years ago

back-link: index.html#a-book-about-qt5

This is personal opinion.

What is the intended audience? I don't think any brand new programmers are going to start their programming career learning C++ and Qt. If that is so then the reader will already have experience with an IDE. I would give an overview of why someone should choose Qt Creator instead of Netbeans, Eclipse, Code Blocks, or Visual Studio.

The decision point will likely be the visual editor for qml layout. Give some explanation how to use that feature that no other IDE provides.

jryannel commented 10 years ago

Just some notes, so that I don't forget them: Thanks for the hint.

So we need a motivation section for qt-creator. The people I know they don't like to use the visual layout editor for QML, because of it's limitation and QML is easy enough. It's more about the productivity and it is so well suited for QtC++/QML coding/development. For project mainly based on other languages or not Qt C++ there are other editors which are probably better suited. Eclipse is heavy (in comparison to creator) and Visual Studio is one-platform only. For example we develop on Mac/Linux/Windows with the same IDE. And one point. It's bundled with Qt:-)