I've done pretty much programming but mainly in Python or R. When I use anything, say, iPhone, I am wondering how they can build such beautiful things that are far easier to interact.
Any experience with Python? How can I build a program where an idiot like a sociologist or an expert in development experts can click on a button that reads like "Click here to upload your dataset", then a button saying "Which method do you want to use, OLS, OLS with robust std errors", something like that?
its a lot easier than you think to build a functional GUI, there tend to be a lot of software APIs available, its not like you are designing everything from scratch. Typically you will just do something like createButton(xcoords, ycoords) and you will get a button where the design comes from a standard toolkit.
Building a beautiful easy-to-use GUI obviously takes a huge amount of work and creative design talent though.
For example if you were working in Python you would probably use something like the Python bindings for the TK toolkit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software)
(there is probably something better than TK these days, and I dont know what the standard iOS toolkits are)
wxPython is better. Or pyslide.
For example if you were working in Python you would probably use something like the Python bindings for the TK toolkit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software)
(there is probably something better than TK these days, and I dont know what the standard iOS toolkits are)
stata is too hard for these people?? *shakes head*
I had to use R and SAS from the very start.
- statsbro
I've done pretty much programming but mainly in Python or R. When I use anything, say, iPhone, I am wondering how they can build such beautiful things that are far easier to interact.
Any experience with Python? How can I build a program where an idiot like a sociologist or an expert in development experts can click on a button that reads like "Click here to upload your dataset", then a button saying "Which method do you want to use, OLS, OLS with robust std errors", something like that?